That Head First about design patterns actually takes heavy inspiration from the Gang of Four. I haven’t read both (only Head First), but I’d wager you don’t need to read GoF if you’ve read Head First.

Only the writing style… is somewhat cringy.

No offence, but this is useless advice and exactly the reason why I wanted official data. “Usually”s and “Shoulds” don’t help. Especially for a completely different graphics card.

I would’ve liked some sort of official source, since other sites may have errors. (Of course the Nvidia page could contain errors, too, but I assumed they’d be more scrutinized than page number 328 which scrapes these details.)

When people get promoted to senior dev, they have lost all will to live. Their code reflects that.

It works well enough to keep the boss man off my back. I’ll go home now.

The single most bestest book that I wish my very first programming teacher would’ve hit me over the head with is “Code Complete 2” by Steve McConnell. I’ve only encountered it a few years into my studies, and time and again I thought: I had to figure this out myself!

It’s basically a collection of all the things you can consider, or think about, or do or do differently when programming. Nothing in there is revolutionary, and none of it is something you couldn’t come up with yourself, but I found it immensely helpful to have the content laid out in a structured way.

A commit all by itself doesn’t mean as much without context.

Luckily a commit points to its parent, which means the context is inherently present. What’s your point?

Why would I not want to be able to apply a commit to any arbitrary branch?

Nobody said that.

Any shortcomings it may have aren’t necessarily due to a flaw in git.

True enough.

If I hand you a commit, you cannot tell which ‘branch’ it is on without searching the git history and hoping that you only get one answer. That’s a bummer if, for instance, you’re a github action and only get handed the commit. If it’s on the master branch, I want to do different things than if it’s a dev branch.

Only git wasn’t done in 10 days. It was very quickly able to track its own development, but it still took Linus half a year of thinking to be able to make git.

(No, sorry, I can’t find the interview that would validate that claim.)

After all, most delays can directly be traced to the QA department. Wise business decision!

• A bug in the code controlling the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine was directly responsible for at least five patient deaths in the 1980s when it administered excessive quantities of beta radiation.
• Radiation therapy planning software RTP/2 created by Multidata Systems International could incorrectly double the dosage of radiation depending on how the technician entered data into the machine. At least eight patients died, while another 20 received overdoses likely to cause significant health problems (November 2000).
• A Medtronic heart device was found vulnerable to remote attacks (2008-03).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_bugs#Tracking_years

Great attention to detail!

Protip: Add a minor inconvenience to every line, like a trailing space or slightly misaligned indentation. That way the next guy who opens the file will automatically correct it, taking the git blame.

Those corporations, they torture sentient and intelligent beings for money. If it was children, what would you do?

You talk as if we didn’t force them to sew our clothes and mine our gold and farm our crops.

porn family plan

not to be confused with the family porn plan.

I was afraid you’d say that. That’s stupid.

Do they give a reason for why that’s ‘necessary’?

(Also it should be const userToName = (user) => user.name;)

Thanks for doing what I was too lazy to do.

I refuse to enter any club that would accept me as a member.

even property/field access is extracted out to a function

Java, the most functional programming language there is.

Same story here. I didn’t pay attention and failed basic math. Suggestion: plumber.

Correct answer: Lay off everyone. The new project will be coded solely by AI. 💯 hired.