Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "10 regrets of experienced programmers" video.

  1. Mark Twain: "I apologize for the long pull request—I didn't have time to write a short one."
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  2. With how sea levels are rising, that's đź’Ż the more relevant and marketable skill.
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  3. No surer way to make a mathematician cry than find a practical use for their work.
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  4. PSA: that "HTML for Babies" book at 2:09 is very real.
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  5. So is your blood 50% caffeine by volume?
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  6. Understanding C types is what differentiates Python developers from script kiddies analysts—beyond just using type hints and understanding package ABIs, performance optimizers like numba require understanding what code can be "easily converted" to C.
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  7. ​ @afrofantom6631 That's awesome! First off—no disrespect to analysts meant: if you're making or informing high-level decisions, you got no time to be worrying about type safety. Second, good on you for broadening your skillset—even if it stays strictly a hobby, the more languages you learn, the more paradigms and ways of thinking you get exposed to, and that's always valuable.
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  8. Yeah. It's called "Global Stallions" and it's owned by Weatherbys.
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  9. Paramedics—and doctors in general—are IT workers who wear scrubs. Tell me I'm wrong.
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  10. Top regret: developing my best side project as an inner-sourced tool, such that company that fired me kept the codebase.
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  11. That's awesome! Just take it from an ex-physicist: when someone sees your problem-solving skills and software engineering background and offers you a job as a data scientist: just say no!!
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  12. If you memorize Jeff's videos and a few Programmers Are Also Human eps, you should nail your technical interview, no problem.
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