Most performance questions are wrong
I don't remember any question posted on Programmers.SE related to performance which would be a good, on-topic question.
I remember questions which were completely wrong or simply unanswerable.
It…
Stack Overflow make us lazy
It is common to think that the purpose of Stack Overflow is to make the world better, and it does, somehow. I think that it increased the overall quality of developer-oriented resources, provided a st…
Elaboration through sharing
The risk of working alone is that one may start to have a simplified vision of a problem, and not being able to see beyond this simple model. This happens to me a lot; today, I have an excellent illus…
Relevance of tags on Careers
Careers profiles includes a list of tags the person is top 10%, top 20% and top 30% in. Surprisingly (maybe not), those tags are followed religiously by some recruiters. They make a big mistake.
Relev…