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jollygoodshow | 10 months ago | on: Push Ifs Up and Fors Down

So say I have an set of elements to render (A,B,C) but they can can come in any order or number (C,B,A,B). If I want to render in the given order, how would I approach this for the best performance implementation?

jollygoodshow | 11 months ago | on: Building an AI that watches rugby

Most pros now have the vests, but also they tend to have additional tech in their mouth guards. This is mostly for CTE monitoring, but I imagine that there's other data that can be extracted

jollygoodshow | 3 years ago | on: Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it

Its typical to have a different set of engineers responsible for the web app. Certainly the case if you're not a tiny startup.

Sabotage feels pointless given you're still competing against other native apps. Also I don't even know how you would 'sabotage' the competition, your average app engineer doesn't moonlight as a blackhat hacker.

jollygoodshow | 3 years ago | on: UK Government Guidelines on Documenting APIs

I don't think they expect you create an exhaustive list of things the API doesn't do. I think instead that if there's missing functionality from what you could call a 'complete' API, it's useful to call that out. E.g this API is for processing images, but we don't support PNG

jollygoodshow | 3 years ago | on: When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code

But time is the important part here - a single parent raising two kids is not going to have time to code at home versus a twenty-something year old with no responsibilities and dependants who has an abundance of free time. Selecting in that manner can also end up being a discrimination (those from poorer backgrounds are more likely to need to care for relatives, same goes for women, who on average do ten hours more of unpaid care than men a week)

jollygoodshow | 4 years ago | on: Unlearning perfectionism

Does the state of being someone who strives for excellence instead of perfection not carry with it it's own downsides? I know the article is more about unlearning perfectionism, but I'd also want to know what I was getting myself into if I did decide to change and if I would prefer it: e.g better the devil you know, though this is probably tinged by my resistance to change...

jollygoodshow | 4 years ago | on: Willingness to look stupid

I think there's a very big difference between asking simple questions (especially when gaining an understanding of a situation) and asking actually stupid questions (unrelated to the topic or questions that have already been answered). This article is claiming the former as the latter and saying "Even when I'm stupid I'm so smart"
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