New Dutch programming language just dropped.

Very no.

Agile as she is spoke. 🤷

Options have value.

Options expire.

🤷

You don’t even need the hyphen!

Mind = blown.

✅

I assumed Python was unpopular in England, because programmers couldn’t spell __init__(). 🤷

If “close enough” works, then it’s nice to have the skill. Having the skill requires occasionally using it.

Where accuracy is important, since we almost always have a calculator with us now, that’s a no-brainer.

Maybe more to the point, though, understanding how percentages work is wise. It’s one of the few arithmetic topics that we encounter regularly in life.

In this case, 23% of 53 and 53% of 23 each have their own little trick, depending whether you’d rather overestimate a little with 1/4 of 52 or underestimate a little with half of 24. I find it handy to be able to think that way, especially for example when trying to get out of a taxi and paying cash.

Pretty close to 1/4 of 52, so like 13-ish, but maybe closer to 12.

(13 + 0.25 - 0.53 - 0.53, really. If I had to, I might be able to keep that in my head.)

I have settled into this pattern:

1. Name expands as I understand better the structural role of a thing. Duplication in names begins to become easier to spot.
2. Removing duplication in names means introducing helpful structures, resulting in shortening names again, particularly as the intent/purpose of thing becomes clearer.

Long names stay unnecessarily long when we don’t notice the patterns that suggest the missing structures.

The more examples of this kind of thing, the better!

(And my preferred name for that is rolesByEmployee. In general, “values by key”.)

Low feels more numb than dark. More like being on pause than everything is terrible. More “I’ll try again later” and less “this is never going to get better”.

I don’t remember the transition. I can’t tell you how long it took. I was only on antidepressant medication for about 18 months.

Peace.

I see that they’ve gone back to the name “The Daily WTF”. For some time, they changed to “Worse than failure” in order to avoid not even the word “fuck”. 🤷

https://thedailywtf.com/

Welcome! I guess this is your Ten Thousand moment for a mediocre joke for old programmers. 💪👍

What if role is FILE_NOT_FOUND?!

Good news, relatively speaking.

I’ve been where you are. Most important: don’t let yourself start to take responsibility for managerial decisions. If they want you to stand in the corner on your head and cluck like a chicken, it’s their money. 🤷 Don’t let that change how you see yourself as a programmer.

And roll your eyes in private.

Is this a problem for you or merely annoying? I mean the difference between you being blamed for their poor results and you merely being inconvenienced by doing extra work.

You might need to train yourself to accept the situation as it is and hope for someone in authority to make things better. It’s not easy, but this might be a good chance for you to build that skill. 🤷

Can you talk openly with your manager about this situation? Would it be helpful to you to propose to your manager that you help that group? Maybe your manager would appreciate your attempt at leadership.

Good luck.

This is the kind of paradox that leads us (I mean humans more generally) to look for some fundamental assumption we’re making about time that will turn out to be wrong. I assume that’s true although I wonder whether it’s literally impossible for us to even imagine how time “truly” works, let alone measure it.

I was a kak user for several years and am giving hx an honest try this year. So far, I’m quite happy.

(and yes, I’ve been both an emacs and vim user.)

hx

I meditate. Very occasionally, I still am not ready to sleep, but it still helps me to do that.

I listen to a podcast, if nothing else works.

Mostly, I don’t worry about not sleeping. It took me years to feel OK with not sleeping, but here I am.

Peace.