Tehnic

Această postare este prima editată exclusiv pe noul workflow. Să recapitulăm un pic:

• nu vom avea comentarii (o perioadă destul de îndelungată, poate niciodată). Voi explica mai jos care e logica.

There’s a chain tweet going around in the programmer’s community these days, one of those old things I used to hate so much. It felt nice today because I actually have a story to tell about it.

I will confess, this title is dishonest. I don’t intend to make a history of C++ build systems, but complain about the state of the most used build system – one that’s portable but is close to impossible to use on Windows, for example, and one that’s too inconsistent to be properly used in your projects. People, however, jumped on the cmake train, although most of us are not enjoying the ride.

Într-o discuție recentă am fost întrebat legat de industria IT. Și recunosc, nu lucrez în industria tehnologiei, și foarte puțini oameni pe care îi cunosc o fac. Marea majoritate lucrează în cu totul alte industrii, doar că folosesc un set de unelte care sunt denumite, generic, IT.

I recently seen a presentation of a good friend of mine and an excellent software architect, Radu Vunvulea, about who owns the data in the cloud. I didn’t see the presentation per se – I only seen the slides, but I have a few thoughts on the issue as well, as it became more important in the recent days, with our Facebook debacle.

I know that I might bore the general population with this topic, but here it comes – another post on why the past was glorious and the present sucks. Before I start, a necessary clarification: I know that „the young generation of programmers is incredibly talented, inventive, productive” and everyone expects to hear that from me. Reality is somewhat different – and you’ll see below why.

The leftpad debacle is a new thing that proves just how low the programming world has sunk. Please make sure that you read the article I linked first, so we can go ahead and bash the current day developers, the young developers as Radu calls them.

[I see a lot of people still read this article, with many of these faults addressed, really. I guess it’s time to make an update to this. It’s been a while.]

It’s a strategy since early 90s, at least, for the interviewers to ask questions about bugs. It’s a bad strategy and this tendency should stop: not only you don’t hire compiler writers, but you don’t necessarily want your hires to understand buggy code, you want them to write bug-free code.

În 2009, Brian Acton, unul din fondatorii WhatsApp a fost refuzat de Facebook în urma unui interviu de angajare.