Well. Medical journalism is full of supposed incredible breakthroughs in fighting cancer. Most were not true. But the sum of gradual progress is indeed incredible, if one thinks about it.

LOL. You made my day!

But how does this make dust mite allergy better and not worse?

Yeah, it might be not that simple, and frankly I don’t understand how a vaccine would help against allergies as the researchers claim. Is this too good to be true?

The thing is EV owners have more money left for food.

Or, in my case, cyclists - a am mid-fifty now, and never hada car. When I feel the need to smile, I sum up the money I have saved this way.

You’ve inherited a 300k lines of spaghetti code. What do you do now?

Quit.

The grain of truth in this is that organizations which have accumulated a lot of technical debt tend to continue to be organizations which accumulate a lot of technical debt.

Let’s say you take a new student job as a kitchen helper in a restaurant, and on day one, you learn that people there don’t really wash the dishes - they just make them look somehow clean.

Do you walk to your boss and tell him: “Hey boss, I got an idea, we could wash our dishes, what do you think?”

It is different if you have more of a say, as in, you are the chef. You could leverage that good chefs are hard to find. You could point at customer reviews with complaints.

But as an apprentice, I would advise to look for a better kitchen. Especially since tidying up 300 k lines of spaghetti code will take many person-years.

Fix the warnings first. By all experience, later is never.

First specs, then a (perhaps semi-formal) API description, then implementation, then first tests, then fix warnings, then rigorous tests, then fix all bugs before adding more features. It sounds contra-intuitive, but you go faster this way.

Looking at young people and having sad thoughts about their future - feeling we owe them something I can’t give them.

But when Copilot can share it, it was already exposed?!

What do they mean by using the word “confidential” ? Considering the word in computing means something like “technically strongly protected against unwanted access by third parties” ?

I don’t really understand what you are trying to say. Can you explain?

• Why is it a wrong take?
• Do you agree with the author? If not, where is the point where disagreement occurs?
• Why should techbros stick to software? Do you mean managers / CEOs ? Software developers?