No-saying is so important.
Linus: "In the end my job is to say no. Somebody has to be able to say no, because other developers know that if they do something bad I will say no. They hopefully in turn are more careful." https://t.co/00eQz6tG1n
90% of "refactoring":
1. highlight large chunk of code
2. paste into new file
3. replace large chunk of code with function call
4. $ git commit -m "refactor login"
5. close refactoring ticket
inspirational youtube influencers: be yourself, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks of you
also inspirational youtube influencers: like, share and subscribe to my channel
Dear tech companies,
Employees don't need ping pong tables or beer fridges at work. 🙅♂️🙅♀️
Employees need flexibility to do their best work and enjoy life. For instance, working remotely. 🙋♂️🙋♀️
Please offer trust, not toys. 🙌
@iamdevloper Put a five second delay - ex: Thread.Sleep(5000); behind every common action in your software, then after 3 months when your users go crazy remove the delays and tell them you worked tirelessly to improve performance and suddenly everyone will love you.
Seeing someone approach you with a pizza is normally a cause for celebration, however, if that person is your project manager, take your coat back off; you're staying late.
DEVELOPER JOB AD: You are always up to date with bleeding edge technologies
TRANSLATION: At any given time our CTO will insist you migrate our entire codebase to whatever framework is on the front page of Hacker News