It's already standard in many agencies for employee credit cards (IBAa or individually billed accounts) to have their spending limit set to $1 when the employee is not traveling. When travel is approved, the spending limit is temporarily raised based on the estimated travel costs. These cards are mainly used for hotel and rental car charges; federal employees are given a per-diem reimbursement when traveling to cover meals and incidentals, which they pay out of their own pocket. You can see per diem rates at https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-book/per-diem-rates . This move seems like something that makes a great sound bite but isn't actually a problem.
“I believe “Twitter poisoning” is a real thing. It is a side effect that appears when people are acting under an algorithmic system that is designed to engage them to the max. It’s a symptom of being part of a behavior-modification scheme.
“The same could be said about any number of other figures, including on the left. Examples are found in the excesses of cancel culture and joyless orthodoxies in fandom, in vain attention competitions and senseless online bullying.”
I think it was clear early on that Swift is the future of iOS development. But if you’ve been around long enough, you’ll have observed that it takes about 10 years for a new language and associated tooling to reach “maturity”. What “maturity” means is debatable, but one aspect is that the ecosystem grows to handle the extreme edge cases like very large scale development. And boy was Uber pushing the edges of what was possible on iOS at the time.
So by my way of thinking, they moved at least a couple years too early. (The Swift project started internally in 2010, first public release in 2014, Uber’s rewrite started in 2016.)
I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently as my company goes through what I think are pretty common growing pains. This is the first time in my career I’ve been part of a startup, though I’ve worked with lots of startups as a consultant/ contractor over the years.
For everyone who’s been through this before, what was your experience like? I think I’m doing okay right now personally as the company changes but I’ve got peers who are seem to be struggling more. What helped you through these types of changes, what made thing worse?
So the article just postulates that started WIP projects slow down developers on a linear basis. So when he takes away that slow-down, things get faster.
Doxygen can build fully hyperlinked docs with complete source listing. It’ll give you an index of all the functions, structs and global variables, and makes it easy to drill down.
If the project uses Cmake, you might look into Jet Brains’ Clion IDE, which has really great tools for code navigation, finding uses of a symbol, etc.
As others have said, find the main function or other primary entry points and start reading. It can seem hopeless at first if the codebase is large, but persistence pays off.
I often find making flow charts and graphing data relationships of key parts of the code to be really helpful.
AT&T offers an app called Call Protect that flags and silences a lot of spam calls. Not perfect, but I’ve been using it for about six months and am very happy with it.
