TL;DR: totally not SSD nor flash. Maybe HDD if you migrate them in time. Some special discs are recommended. Optical... joyful.

Experiment 5

Goal: Go 21 straight days without complaining or uttering non-constructive criticism. (If I catch myself doing it, I must start again at day zero.)

This was inspired by Will Bowen’s book A Complaint Free World, in which he claims that if you stop pronouncing your negative thoughts, you stop having those kinds of thoughts, and that if everyone did this the world would change completely.

What happened: It took 55 days to get 21 complaint-free days in a row, but I did it. This experiment really does teach you not to complain, and I think everyone should do it once in their lives. But it didn’t create much of an inner change. My negative thoughts were unaffected, I just got more polite about whether to pass them on to others. Complaining can even be a worthwhile form of bonding, as I learned while I was working a painful manual labor job with new friends, and could never join in on the lighthearted griping. Still, it’s better to never complain than to complain freely.

Where I am with it today: Even though the exercise didn’t eliminate internal negativity like the book promised, the experiment left me much more conscious about expressing needless negativity, and I am pretty good at keeping it to myself most of the time. I’m also more patient with others when they’re complaining. This is one experiment I would recommend to almost anybody.

Occasionally, you will see the opportunity to completely remove the worrying part of the system, which for me is one of the most satisfying things you can do as a software engineer. Removing things that cause your team stress has compounding benefits to your team, to the systems you work on, and to your engineering org in general

Алекс Хитеч подкидывает документы компании, которая забыла, как устроен её завод.

On communication on sea with flags

People have different names for the colors they see. Language can affect how we memorize and name colors. This is a color naming test designed to measure your personal blue-green boundary.

A - The task requirements and goals might not be clear enough. If you are trying to get yourself to “plan for a project” or “write a book” then it’s hard to identify the next actionable items. Put some time aside to figure out what physical things you can do to move the project forward. Try break down the larger tasks into the smallest pieces possible. The goal of the project might need identifying, or the requirements fleshed out from a supervisor.

B - The task might exceed your current competency. Sometimes we know what we have to do, but don’t know how to do it, and then we become avoidant rather than admitting this. In this case, it’s worth figuring out what you do know how to do and what you don’t know how to do, and be honest with that. Then slowly ask for help or read up on the things you don’t know.

C - The tasks might really not be worth it. Sometimes you are assigned tasks that don’t actually help you achieve your long-term goals, and so your brain demotivate you from doing them. Maybe the payoff is low, maybe you don’t learn anything new from them, or maybe a colleague you don’t like will gain credit for the tasks, or maybe you just wont be rewarded or appreciated for getting the tasks done.

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Trying to make the case for permanent irrevocable digital identities, which unfortunately today, by de-facto, are email addresses.

Gio is an open source library for creating portable, immediate mode GUI programs for Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, macOS.

Index the independent where predicates to improve hash join performance.

Indexing join predicates doesn’t improve hash join performance.

Indexing a hash join is independent of the join order.

Select fewer columns to improve hash join performance.

Hash joins do not need indexes on the join predicates. They use the hash table instead.
A hash join uses indexes only if the index supports the independent predicates.
Reduce the hash table size to improve performance; either horizontally (less rows) or vertically (less columns).
Hash joins cannot perform joins that have range conditions in the join predicates.

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Выделите джуниору части проекта, где он будет главным, через него будут решаться все вопросы связанные с ними. При срочной необходимости, можно всё сделать самому, но в штатном режиме хозяин кода - он.

Языки программирования как люди

Рич Хикки рассказывает о различиях простоты и лёгкости в контексте проектирования и написания программ.

Говорит, что многие выбирают лёгкость, забывая про простоту. Со временем комплексность превращается во что-то такое, что сложно поддерживать и в чём сложно разобраться новичкам.

Нужно стремиться искать лёгкие способы делать простые программы.

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