16 Feb 2015
https://willfaught.com/2015/02/16/betable-is-hiring/
Betable — where I work — is looking to hire a senior software engineer in San Francisco:
Rubicon Media (Betable) has an opening for Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco, CA to Research, design, develop, and test operating systems-level software for business and general computing applications. Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field followed by 7 years progressive post-baccalaureate experience in job offered or software engineering-related occupation.
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08 Mar 2026
https://olshansky.info/posts/2026-03-08-programming-humour/
One of my alltime favourite jokes in the context of software engineering is:
“There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.”
I recently discovered it came from a post on X.
It’s been 16 years since it first came out, and there’s finally a small update we can make:
16 years later, we’ve finally solved off-by-1 errors with the help of agents.
Unfortunately, we replaced them with AI slop.
Two hard problems remain.
https://blog.sewera.dev/refactoring-teams
The idea of refactoring is well known by most software engineers.
Because many software managers are former engineers,
they are usually also familiar with this term.
However, with time, when managers become “the business people,”
they tend to treat refactoring as a necessary evil,
only slowing down the development of new features.
The idea of refactoring can be applied not only to code,
but also to teams organization,
which can considerably speed up the development.
I hope that it becomes a valu...