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Content MIT Technology Review 23 hrs Who should a self-driving car kill? TECHNOLOGYREVIEW.COM Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you're from 583 m Like Top Fan both of them. Like . Replv . 23h ProarammerHumor.io Comment 479 Comments 333 Share ( Share If you drift you should be able to take out ) 20

The eternal dev team cycle of pain: You fix a bug and submit a PR, then sit there refreshing GitHub like Pablo Escobar waiting for someone—ANYONE—to review your code. Meanwhile, the project manager is wandering around wondering why features are still stuck in QA purgatory. Classic chicken-and-egg problem where nothing moves because everyone's waiting for someone else to do their part first. The circle of software development hell that transcends programming languages and team sizes.

Content I've interviewed a lot of people over the last year (Java), and my favorite test is to throw a Stack Trace at them and ask them to figure out what the problem is. The answer is actually quite clear, however. Half of them don't know it's called a stack trace. Some don't know what they're looking at (BYE!). Several focus on the wrong section of proprietary code. Some ask to "open a debugger". however the answer is right there in plain english if you just read the method names. Many don't realize the line numbers are RIGHT THERE, and then start focusing on the lines ending with "Compiled Code". Then there are the ones who work their way up from the bottom, starting with the application container code, and lose their minds. Some who figure out what is happening don't have a solution to prevent it from happening. No, I'm not sharing the trace; suffice to say it's been reviewed by more than 5 of my peers and they all passed. Like Reply 1h Edited I mean, it isn't hard to eliminate people with a coding question. Do you find it impossible to teach people how to read text stack traces, or is this a skill without which they will be unable to do anything of use, or do you just not want to hire anyone? 1 am serious. 1 can come up with dozens of useful programming skills I can test a candidate on that most perfectly skilled programmers would fail. Start with eliminating people who can't code at all. Then find out what they can do that could be useful. If I have 5 people who can already take a printed out stack crash dump, I probably don't need another, and if I do, a qualified candidate can be taught that skill by someone who knows it in under a week. Then again, maybe you work for Stack Trace Inc, and your entire job is looking at stack traces. If so, by bad. Like Reply 22m

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Content 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Dear programmer: When I wrote this code, only god and I knew how it worked. " Now, only god knows it! Therefore, if you are trying to optimize this routine and it fails (most surely), please increase this counter as a warning for the next person: total hours wasted here 254

Content Programmers 30 years ago I program in G because I understand how computers fucking work. Programmers today Piz, I need 8GB RAM and octacore to run my Python programz smoothly.