Hasnain says:

Worth reading for anyone that's getting started, or an expert on, code reviews.

"Frequently the root cause of code review thrash is the issue of trust. If a lack of trust is involved, it does not matter how good the code is. This is especially true when author is changing code that someone else feels ownership over."

Hasnain says:

Interesting take on specialists versus generalists, and how having too narrow a worldview can be harmful. It’s a plug for a book, but still worth reading.

“Unfortunately, the world’s most prominent specialists are rarely held accountable for their predictions, so we continue to rely on them even when their track records make clear that we should not. One study compiled a decade of annual dollar-to-euro exchange-rate predictions made by 22 international banks: Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and others. Each year, every bank predicted the end-of-year exchange rate. The banks missed every single change of direction in the exchange rate. In six of the 10 years, the true exchange rate fell outside the entire range of all 22 bank forecasts.”

Hasnain says:

“New findings by Harvard Medical School researchers confirm that it’s not the children who are failing, it’s the schools we place them in too early. These researchers discovered that children who start school as among the youngest in their grade have a much greater likelihood of getting an ADHD diagnosis than older children in their grade. In fact, for the U.S. states studied with a September 1st enrollment cut-off date, children born in August were 30 percent more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than their older peers.”

This article summarizes a new study into early childhood development and the educational system. The results are stark...

Hasnain says:

“Doriane Coleman is a Professor of Law at Duke Law School. As an 800m runner, she became the U.S. National Collegiate Indoor Champion in 1982, and the Swiss National Champion in 1982 and 1983.”

Counter point to the piece I shared the other day.

Hasnain says:

This article goes into the (mal)practice of dentistry in the US. Interesting take both on a case of fraud, and on the history and development of dentistry in the country.

“The uneasy relationship between dentist and patient is further complicated by an unfortunate reality: Common dental procedures are not always as safe, effective, or durable as we are meant to believe. As a profession, dentistry has not yet applied the same level of self-scrutiny as medicine, or embraced as sweeping an emphasis on scientific evidence. “We are isolated from the larger health-care system. So when evidence-based policies are being made, dentistry is often left out of the equation,””

Hasnain says:

Really engrossing. And a topic dear to my heart since robocalls are the reason my phone is always on silent.

"In the past few years, there hadn’t been much that Democrats and Republicans in Congress could agree on. Health care, immigration, taxes, deficits—every debate, every topic and idea was us vs. them. Here, finally, was an issue that perfectly bridged the partisan divide: a burning hatred of robo­calls."

Hasnain says:

Senseless violence :(

I hope all those I know from Lahore are safe, along with their families and friends.

Hasnain says:

I am unreasonably excited by this.

I finally set up WSL *yesterday* on my desktop so I could more easily work on side projects, and the performance difference was noticeable.

I did get 2 BSoD's that were reliably reproducible, but along with this and VSCode's remote - WSL support it was really great to develop on windows. Something I never thought I'd say in a long time.

Hasnain says:

This was an engrossing human interest story. Not only does it cover a decades long friendship, it goes into the early days at Google, a bunch of technical material, and how productive focus time can be.

"At Google, Jeff is far better known. There are Jeff Dean memes, modelled on the ones about Chuck Norris. (“Chuck Norris counted to infinity . . . twice”; “Jeff Dean’s résumé lists the things he hasn’t done—it’s shorter that way.”) But, for those who know them both, Sanjay is an equal talent. “Jeff is great at coming up with wild new ideas and prototyping things,” Wilson Hsieh, their longtime colleague, said. “Sanjay was the one who built things to last.” In life, Jeff is more outgoing, Sanjay more introverted. In code, it’s the reverse. Jeff’s programming is dazzling—he can quickly outline startling ideas—but, because it’s done quickly, in a spirit of discovery, it can leave readers behind. Sanjay’s code is social."

Hasnain says:

:/

"People angered by this ruling point out that when a white man had a natural genetic advantage, it was praised, while a Black woman is being punished for hers. "