M192: Find a way to structure your opinion after each interview of a new candidate
When you interview each new candidate, your opinion will most likely be pretty subjective. I suggest you try to find a way to structure it with some generic approach, which you will apply to all inter...
18 Apr 20225min
M191: When a bug report is not as simple as it can be, don't fix it
The best bug report is the one that represents the simplest possible scenario where the bug shows up. Most bug reports are not like that. I suggest rejecting them and letting their authors simplify th...
11 Apr 20225min
M190: Make sure the bugs you report explain the simplest possible scenarios
When you report a bug, try to make it as simple as it's possible. When you accept a bug, ask the reporter to make it as simple as possible. Somebody has to do this work of minimization of a bug. I sug...
4 Apr 20225min
M189: How would you decide who deserves to be authors of a published paper?
When you write an academic paper or a patent together with your co-workers, who of them becomes your co-authors? All of them? Some of them? Who decides? In this video I'm asking for your help in defin...
21 Mar 20228min
N13: Украина, Санкции, Железный Занавес, Иммиграция
Video is here: https://youtu.be/6RYinocrR0E
11 Mar 202251min
M188: I don't think ML will ever be able to write code
AlphaCode recently announced that its ML model can write code as good as an average programmer. I don't think it's writing and I don't believe in this approach we will ever be able to get anything mea...
21 Feb 202212min
Shift-M/53: Adam Tornhill on auto-detecting technical debt hotspots
Adam is a creator of CodeScene.com, a cloud service where you can check the quality of your code and spot places where your technical debt is the largest. He's also the author of "Your Code as a Crime...
11 Feb 202257min
M187: Why did I return a new MacBook Pro 2021 worth $5500 back to Apple?
Two months ago I bought a new MacBook Pro. After a month of waiting, I received it. My frustration was huge. I returned it to Apple and got the money back. Here is why. The video is here: https://you...
10 Feb 202213min
