I enjoy programming in C. Over the years, I’ve built a couple dozen projects of varying complexity – from small toy programs to game engines, key-value storage systems, and even algorithmic trading platforms. Each time I start a new project, before I can begin the actual work, I have to go through a somewhat tedious phase: setting up the build system and defining dependencies on other projects and…
Extremes and excesses A great number of paradoxes and contradictions are born in businesses when trying to answer this question. Decisions become extremes: professional criteria are lowered and, primarily business tasks are solved. Another extreme is increased requirements taking no account of the market and often appearing because of paranoia and narrowmindedness. This leads to the destruction of…
Apart from the development, I also teach at the Department of Informational Systems in a university, and once during the exam I told one of my students that at the end of the course students should have at least a basic idea on how the stop-and-copy garbage collector works. Student argued that the intellect and analytical skills can always offset not knowing some facts, plus the topic itself looks…