Teach this to your manager: At the beginning of a task, uncertainty is highest. Under no circumstances should you give an estimate in ‘man-hours’. Even days is too precise. The first estimate should be in months or years (of course depending on the size of the project). Then, as your insight into the project grows, you refine that to months, then weeks, later days. A vague estimate with a lower and a higher bound is way more useful to your manager than a ridiculously ‘precise’ but highly speculative number.

This lesson was brought to you by either “Code Complete 2” or “Rapid Development” by Steve McConnel, and by my former manager who wanted projects estimated in minutes.

duh? One is a completely passive ‘experience’, while the other is more akin to a hobby: You perform an action, gain a skill and overcome obstacles that become more and more difficult.

Honestly, I find it great that Linus still manages the Kernel after all this time.

While we’re giving advice on good reads, I foudn “Code Complete” to be much more useful than “The Pragmatic Programmer” (also about 10x the size).

Mileage may vary. I got a Bachelor’s and while it makes the job hunt easier, mine didn’t actually teach me to code.

Firefox has a context menu entry “copy link without tracking” when you right-click in the address bar.

No, it does.

datev?

Nah, it’s from a blog post that you cannot find via Google, no matter what combination of words you throw at it, that substitutes the documentation for how to link to a specific thing like a customer in SAP ByDesign.

Only this particular entry must’ve come across several redesigns, one of which started rendering ): as that emoji.

Now I want to know what the issue was.

And the “solution”.

I don’t know why. Maybe the typings for it are just fucking bad. Or maybe d3 is very hard to use “correctly”, but still works most of the time even if invoked incorrectly (I doubt that). Or maybe d3 is so complex that the typings need to be complex, too, even if you don’t use the complexity (the type retured from selectAll has four type parameters, half of which are undefined by default, the other half, null).

I believe you don’t have to actually use (meaning “compile from”) typescript to profit from it. If you maul the compiler options hard enough, you might get it to analyze JavaScript and provide type checking.

Elderly team mates with the flexibility of concrete, yay!

In my defense, the backend contracts change so often in early development the any just made sense at first…

Refactorings and changes are the prime reason to use TypeScript. You edit your data objects and get squigglies everywhere shit won’t work anymore. A godsend!

Any project that uses d3.

You seem knowledgable. I’m surprised that it’s even possible for a software vendor to inject code into the kernel. Why is that necessary?

So you’re that contractor that always shits out code that looks like the guy who wrote it was just learning the language?

I had two deployments today and then left for an early weekend.

Readonly friday is for pussies.

Right, I forgot about that.

It’s a mediocre meme I made to bitch about your point.

Speak for yourself. I’ve lost count of how often I reinstalled Linux.