You have free hints now, so can actually win.

I love his trans jokes.

Have you ever been there?

So why is not Egypt opening its borders?

As a person who went to Math Olympiads and then switched to programming (with a math flavour) I am talking this personal.

Medium articles should be banned.

Low effort writing. Medium.

This is funny on all levels:

• The initial motivation for the heinous act;

• How the plan was implemented;

• The reaction to the plan.

Yes it does, the only parts where Java doesn't shine are usually some advanced features that are nightmarish for people who are building tools and libraries:

• The type system is so 90s and it's kept like that for backwards compatibility.

• Generics having type erasure is again an improvisation for the sake of backwards compatibility. It makes writing generic code in conjunction with Reflection painful.

• The lack of control for the memory layout. I mean in most cases you dont need full control, but there are use cases where it's literally impossible to do optimisations that are easy to do in C/C++. You must have faith in the JVM and JIT.

• Integration with native code is cumbersome.

Other than that Java is fine for most backend work you need to do, except probably for Real Time Processing apps where every millisecond count, but even there there are ways.

You use Java not for the languages itself, but for the tooling and the ecosystem.

For personal projects and prototypes i believe it's fine, but when you consume the electricity of mid-size countries just because you prefer to write your production code in convenient languages don't lecture others about ecology and climate change (i am not refering to you).

Developers should go back writing efficient code in lower level programming languages to stop wasting CPU cycles for stupid reasons, like not wanting to use types, or something more stupid than that.

It's a little curse to be remotely passionated about programming and be a programmer nowadays. Some companies make it extremely dull and toxic with all their additional requirements and managerial practices. But there's hope, there are good companies or teams, and eventually if you stay long enough you will find your place.

That was my case.

The only lesson you need to learn is to make distinction between your interests, side projects and hobbies and the actual work you need to do ar work. If they overlap that's amazing, if not you need to adapt. You need to give the company what the company wants (so you can get paid), and to yourself what you want, so you can be fulfilled.

Great story.

For me the experience is different, but to be honest i am spending more time in the terminal and the browser than notifying what the DE is actually missing.

I mean, i have panel on the bottom with the open apps, a few shortcuts, the network manager, the Bluetooth manager and the calendar. I am not missing anything.

I also run Mint, and things were extremely stable for as long I can remember.

It would be C++. Its versatile enough to do everything with it.

They force you think of o(n) and train you better than anything else on how to write your functions (but not how to organise them).

I have around 600 leetcode exercises solved, and there's a big difference in skill between the person i was before leetcode and the person i am now.

There's definitely a ladder, for me it was constant work, rather than hard work.

Good list, much appreciated 👍.

HN is still a good resource, but I wish spending my time reading what real people have to say, even if i disagree. A lot of articles there are about subjects, or written by "entities" that are not on my radar.

lobste.rs is my favourite hn alternative, but considerably smaller. At least people there are more civil, and being part of the site for a few years made me feel part of community, as i already (virtually) know some of the people there, and appreciate their opinions.

Still, nothing beats the "curation" of content you can achieve by maintaining your own RSS feeds list.

Amazing, you've got my point quite well. Added almost everything to my RSS reader.