Ryan Kon worked in big companies, started his own startup, and now runs a web development firm. We talk about how to be more robust and antifragile in your tech career, tech people being incapable to grow, tail-call optimisation, code editors, the weird “nerd fantasy” of remote work, and much more.
Quite an impressive Ask HN thread from a 74-year-old programmer who is 57 years in the business. Comments by other senior folks about how they developed in their career, pretty sweet. Don’t give ageism a chance!
Percentage of developers who are developing with the language or technology and have expressed interest in continuing to develop with it - Javascript ist last.
So they use Chromium and JavaScript for the Dragon 2 flight interface but the actual flight computers still run on C++. Dragon uses a triple redundant system for its flight computers, read this exciting thread for more
Back in the day when I was applying to programmer jobs I used the Joel Test, 12 yes/no questions, to determine if I want to work at a place. This article is an expansion on it.
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