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newsletter.engstuff.xyz
1 points·by emma-w·4 anni fa·0 comments

Mathematics and mathematics education in the 21st century [pdf]

arxiv.org
4 points·by emma-w·4 anni fa·1 comments

Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time

iism.org
8 points·by emma-w·5 anni fa·1 comments

Java’s Checked Exceptions Are Just Weird Union Types

blog.jooq.org
7 points·by emma-w·5 anni fa·0 comments

Working with signals in Rust – some things that signal handlers can't handle

jameselford.com
2 points·by emma-w·5 anni fa·0 comments

Traditional companies are losing because they mismanage software engineers

ewattwhere.substack.com
7 points·by emma-w·5 anni fa·0 comments

There is currently no plan for PWA support in Firefox

bugzilla.mozilla.org
3 points·by emma-w·5 anni fa·1 comments

Good managers think leadership is about competently serving their team

ewattwhere.substack.com
7 points·by emma-w·5 anni fa·0 comments

C++20 Concepts: The Definitive Guide

thecodepad.com
141 points·by emma-w·5 anni fa·100 comments

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emma-w
·4 anni fa·discuss


    "As the person leading the meeting, your job is to provoke and channel the talents and expertise of everyone in the discussion. This rarely makes you look smart."
This reminds me of the Steve Jobs quote:

    "It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."
emma-w
·5 anni fa·discuss
+1, I actually started toying with blogging about dev management because of the excellent HN discussion on that article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23872625

and this equally excellent discussion:

Developers can't fix bad management (2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27458785
emma-w
·5 anni fa·discuss
LOL, why is my article flagged? I mean, I sort of love the notoriety, but still, why?
emma-w
·5 anni fa·discuss
Because traditional authoritative sources that I would look to for guidance are completely out of date. From where I sit it looks to me like they are more focused on milking endowments than discovering what is happening in the real world.
emma-w
·5 anni fa·discuss
Wait what? Really? Why?
emma-w
·5 anni fa·discuss
This.
emma-w
·5 anni fa·discuss
>And of course the author knows.

Author here, I don't actually know, I'm still learning.

But I know that by observation most of my peers are truly ignorant and just winging it.

Fixing that would make life better for everyone.
emma-w
·5 anni fa·discuss
That was my risky click for the day!
emma-w
·5 anni fa·discuss
Isn't it true that Rust is meant to solve problems in spaces where those languages really can't play? I'll admit to plenty of ignorance about all three of those languages, so I'm genuinely curious what you think.