Fear of looking dumb drives many engineers to avoid questioning decisions, leading to suboptimal outcomes due to a reluctance to voice concerns.
Starting with a monolith allows for easier correction of design mistakes within a single codebase, whereas microservices make fixing errors in distributed systems much harder.
When someone else is paying for your time, the tool that is easiest to understand and maintain, even if not the most advanced, is often the best choice for the job.
Most business software is legacy because it rarely achieves true greenfield status due to ongoing maintenance and the difficulty of starting fresh.
Hands-on workshops allow participants to actively learn and apply knowledge, making them more effective than passive seminars where attendees only listen.
Natalie believes a multi-cooker is sufficient for most households, but listeners prefer traditional kitchens for cooking.
Safari is more memory-efficient and has better battery life, making it his favorite browser despite lagging behind in web standards implementation.
He believes minimal syntax highlighting improves his programming skills by reducing distractions and forcing him to focus on code structure.
He theorizes that Python could dominate by adopting Go's syntactic features, making it more appealing to lazy developers who prefer scripting over proper programming.
Listeners believe TikTok's algorithm-driven content skews news towards user preferences, making it a biased source.
Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2023.
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