Issue #509
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The Tarzan Method

— James Stanier


tl;dr: “Performance review season always gets people thinking: where am I going? Where do I want to be next year? Why haven't I managed to get that promotion this time around? What's the point of all of this anyway?” James discusses the patterns he commonly sees in reports and how being transfixed on a single goal can do more harm than good.


Leadership Management

The Power Of Questions

— Mike Fisher


tl;dr: The ability to ask the right questions is a real superpower for executives and leaders. It demonstrates curiosity, intelligence, and the ability to rapidly get to the core of complex issues. Developing this skill requires conscious effort, humility and practice, but yields major benefits in decision making and innovation. Mike shares insights into how to develop this skill. 


Leadership Management

Why Passkeys Matter


tl;dr: Passwords are a massive security risk, with billions exposed yearly due to poor practices. Passkeys offer a promising passwordless solution that enhances security and user experience through biometrics and cryptography, eliminating complex credentials. With major tech companies embracing passkeys, widespread adoption could revolutionize online security and user authentication. 


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Management Security

Basic Things

— Alex Kladov


tl;dr: “After working on the initial stages of several largish projects, I accumulated a list of things that share the following three properties: (1) They are irrelevant while the project is small. (2) They are a productivity multiplier when the project is large. (3) They are much harder to introduce down the line.”


Management


“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”


— Albert Einstein


Good Ideas in Computer Science

— Daniel Hooper


tl;dr: “By “universally considered good” I mean they aren’t debated. Ideas so widespread and effective that you might not even think of them as being invented. Each idea may not be suitable in all situations, but you won’t find a programmer that thinks you should never use them. I intentionally focus on ideas, not implementations. For example: Unix contains many good ideas, but is not on the list because it is an implementation.”


CareerAdvice

Generative AI For High-Quality Mobile Testing


tl;dr: “The Developer Platform team at Uber is consistently developing new and innovative ideas to enhance the developer’s experience and strengthen the quality of our apps. Quality and testing go hand in hand, and in 2023 we took on a new and exciting challenge to change how we test our mobile applications, with a focus on machine learning (ML). Specifically, we are training models to test our applications just like real humans would.”


Platform Tests

IsBooleanTooLongAndComplex


tl;dr: Complex boolean expressions can be difficult to read and understand, making it challenging for developers to reason about the code's behavior. This post shares a couple of simple techniques to make code easier to comprehend without altering the underlying business logic.


Tests

Reverse The List Of Integers

— Arthur O’Dwyer


tl;dr: Reverse a list of distinct positive integers using two types of moves: splitting a number into two parts that sum to the whole, or combining two adjacent numbers into their sum. The goal is to reverse the list without creating numbers greater than the original list's maximum or duplicating any elements. The challenge is to find the optimal sequence of moves.


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