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The 3 Motivational Forces Of Developers
- Ben Northrop tl;dr: “After 15 years in industry, I've come to realize that the most defining quality of a developer is his source of motivation. It undergirds all of his decisions and interactions. It predicts what kind of code he'll write, what technologies he'll prefer, and even how he'll succeed on a given assignment. And it's often quite easy to peg for any given developer after just a few days of working with him or her.”featured in #543
featured in #542
Build Vs Buy Part I: Complexities Of Building SSO And SCIM In-House
- Min Kim Amit Bhojraj tl;dr: One of the pitfalls of building SSO and SCIM from scratch is the ongoing engineering investment required to scale your solution — supporting more IdPs, dealing with expiring SAML certificates, and standardizing onboarding fragmentation. And this is after spending 3-6 months to develop the initial solution for a handful of providers. When factoring in feature expansion (domain verification, JIT provisioning, custom-mapped attributes, IdP role assignment), which is different from work related to maintenance and scalability, the total cost of ownership multiplies significantly.featured in #542
The 3 Motivational Forces Of Developers
- Ben Northrop tl;dr: “After 15 years in industry, I've come to realize that the most defining quality of a developer is his source of motivation. It undergirds all of his decisions and interactions. It predicts what kind of code he'll write, what technologies he'll prefer, and even how he'll succeed on a given assignment. And it's often quite easy to peg for any given developer after just a few days of working with him or her.”featured in #542
Ask For Advice, Not Permission
- Andrew Bosworth tl;dr: From the CTO at Meta: “One of the most common anti-patterns I see that can create conflict in an otherwise collaborative environment is people asking for permission instead of advice. This is such an insidious practice that it not only sounds reasonable, it actually sounds like the right thing to do: “Hey, I was thinking about doing X, would you be on board with that?”" Andrew argues that the problem with asking for permission is that you’re implicitly asking someone else to take some responsibility for your decision. Asking for advice creates advocates for your idea but doesn't saddle them with responsibility.featured in #541
featured in #540
Objective Evaluations For AI Systems
- Kelly Moon tl;dr: AI systems are only as good as the benchmarks and evaluations they are measured against. Learn how to evaluate AI systems.featured in #540
featured in #540
How We Deleted 4195 Code Files In 9 Hours
- Anton Zaides tl;dr: “My manager suggested an interesting idea - let’s clean up our codebase! We’ll stage a competition with worthy prizes, and in a single day delete all those unused files we always dreamt of cleaning up. Behold - the Cleanathon!” Anton discusses the goals of a Cleanathon, statistics and what to consider when organizing the event.featured in #540