cwilkes

Maybe should be called “iq-string” for Interview Question string.

This implies that the input process did a check when it imported the data from somewhere else.

GIEMGO garbage in even more garbage out

Scammers attract scammers?

I recommend the book “Unwinding Anxiety” by Judson Brewer for further reading. Another book of his “Hunger Habits” is really good.

I’ve heard of that for civil engineering firms but the amount of damages is capped at the yearly contract amount.

Which in this case is probably a lot less than what these companies are paying in clean up costs.

I cannot upvote this enough. They continuously squeeze suppliers either on a bill or to make more faster. Accidents are bound to happen.

“Back in July 2025, six years before Apple introduced Siri, Susan Bennett made some recordings.”

The author is from the future?

You inherit some code. Is that string a username or a phone number? Who knows. Someone accidentally swapped two parameter values. Now the phone number is a username and you’ve got a headache of trying to figure out what’s wrong.

By having stronger types this won’t come up as a problem. You don’t have to rely on having the best programmers in the world that never make mistakes (tm) to be on your team and instead rely on the computer making guard rails for you so you can’t screw up minor things like that.

MSFT today: $373. Yeah I would say 10x growth vs 4x isn’t comparable.

“ChatGPT summarize last weeks events”

“I’m sorry, I can’t do that Dave. Not cuz I’m deciding not to do it but because I can’t for the life of me figure this shit out. Like what was the endgame? This is breaking my neural net”