There is a colleague of mine who is loud, arrogant and thinks he knows it all. Except when I worked closely with him turned out he doesn't know shit. And he has been in the industry for over a decade! Why the fuck was he hired, I don't know..

Why the hell doesn't Go have generics?? You have to teach Go how to access elements of a list n times if you have n things that need to be sorted!

Poll: camelCase or snake_case?

XML is meant for computers to read, not humans.

It's 2016. Please use yaml instead!

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Some of the wk13 posts are so obnoxious! Many posts were about non techy people asking good questions. Remember you probably know nothing about the field they specialise in, so don't get too cocky. A little humility goes a long way.

FP > OOP
I wish the enterprise world starts learning this!

Spring Framework stacktrace... sigh
(I hear the J2EE folks have it worse)

!rant

Emacs vs Vim? Why not both!
I found a gem of an editor called Spacemacs which combines the power of Emacs and the editing capabilities of Vim! Already replaced intelliJ with spacemacs for my scala and Java projects :)

I worked on a project that used an archaic homegrown library written by a consultant that had zero documentation, tons of reflection and here is the kicker... the consultant refused to give us the source code as it was "his intellectual property" so we couldn't make any sense of how to actually use it. Moreover, he worked remotely so the timezone difference between us meant that any questions we had took ages to get answered. Glad to be away from that project now.

My uncle introduced me to basic and used to challenge me to solve problems. One day he challenged me to write a program that generates the Fibonacci series. Thirty minutes later I had the solution and was irrevocably hooked :)