IT Not Everyone Should Code – It’s become popular to encourage anyone and everyone to code. But there simply won’t be unlimited demand for the skill, nor will everyone actually enjoy it. Is Refactoring That Code Really A Good Idea?… Read More »ProLinks #27
IT Be likeable or get fired! – I have just been let go by my employer after only 5 months on the job. As usual in my country, the contract I signed included a probation period of 6 months within… Read More »ProLinks #26
About real programmers, good developers, cognitive biases, China social experiment acronyms and more. IT REAL programmers don’t use Visual Studio – Why would someone want a nice GUI when we can use terminal based editors, such as vim or emacs.… Read More »ProLinks #25
About users, media, facebook, reputation age and more. IT Flight Levels: The Organizational Improvement Levels – The Flight Level model poses one main question: Which organization levels offer which leverage for improvement? Bitcoin is Hurting the Search for Aliens! #deletefacebook… Read More »ProLinks #22
How to teach machines, how to program programming language, how to manage engineers or how NASA prevented the end of the world. More inside. IT Teacup – Once upon a time, there was a machine learning researcher who tried to… Read More »ProLinks #19
About code reviews, failing, parallelism or why Mr. Bean rulez. More inside. IT Code Reviews – Why, what and how – Arne Mertz – Meeting C++ 2017 If You’re Going to Fail, Fail Safely – So when something does go… Read More »ProLinks #15
First ProLinks edition in 2018 brings a lot of links for IT professionals including solid Ruby criticism. Also interesting links about society, science and more inside. IT Managing Engineers with Ron Lichty The Problem Solver – Good developers are good… Read More »ProLinks #11
Net neutrality, bitcoin, newest US aircraft carrier and lots more inside. IT How the end of net neutrality could change the internet Can we assume while testing software that a user wouldn’t perform such silly actions on software? – For… Read More »ProLinks #10
GDPR is coming, most programming jobs are bullshit and acts of gods are going away. More inside. IT Internet protocols are changing – For many years, there were negligible changes to these core Internet protocols; HTTP added a few new… Read More »ProLinks #9
5 rules of programming, universal basic income or how EU build a wall that Trump can be envious of. Enjoy! IT Why Concerns About Net Neutrality Are Overblown – Critics worry that getting rid of neutrality regulation will lead to… Read More »ProLinks #8