The CEO of New York-based online mortgage lender Better.com has sacked a total of 900 employees with immediate effect during a now-viral Zoom call. Better.com’s chief executive Vishal Garg has slammed the ex-workers for allegedly stealing from customers by not … Read more
The most commands I type are cd, exa, rm, git …, cargo …. I also type mg, which launches a GUI version of Emacs with Magit: These tools make me productive. Keyboard-only input is fast and “composable” (I can press … Read more
At Farnam Street, we aim to master the best of what other people have figured out. Not surprisingly, it’s quite a lot. The past is full of useful lessons that have much to teach us. Sometimes, we just need to … Read more
In most of the organs of our body, the lymphatic system is responsible for conducting lymph between different parts of the body. The lymphatic system processes an average of 3 liters of lymph per day. Lymph lies between the blood … Read more
What do you worry about more: Getting exercise, eating vegetables, or the air you breathe? While most things that provably improve health are well known, one is insanely underrated: Fixing your air. I suspect this is often the most effective … Read more
Of course, code reviews aren’t typically this frictionless in practice. Changes are requested, you go back and forth, and the feature branch in question sees active development during the life of the pull request. Let’s assume that all three feature … Read more
This implies that if these needs are so different, you may need different diagrams. And although it sounds like it’s more work (and yes, it is), it’s actually helpful because it helps a lot in defining the scopes. This one … Read more
C is almost 50 years old. A great age for a bottle of wine, not so great for a programming language in the fast-moving industry. Over the past 10 years many new languages have emerged, with different flavours, all trying … Read more