Dylan Meeus

The #gophercon agenda is online 🎉! Join me for some functional programming with Go on November 13, at 10.25AM EST 😄 gophercon.com/agenda/session… #golang

Nerds, tune in next week! I'll be with Penny de Byl (@penslayer), Dylan Meeus (@DylanMeeus), and Jasmine Greenaway (@paladique) answering your questions. linkedin.com/events/celebra…

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💯 Top #books for #developers 001 Today I wanna suggest you this wonderful book by @DylanMeeus! (Edition by @PacktPublishing) @PacktAuthors ✒️ I've started with #golang many months ago and I found this book on Amazon for delve much deeper inside functional programming in go. Pros : ✅ Well written and rich of examples ✅ Good arguments division ✅ Well explained in every part, functional programming in go looking so simple thanks to the author Cons : 🚩 Needs a little experience in Golang 🚩 Due to oop parallelisms, a prior experience with this paradigm is required Language : EN 🇺🇸 Formats : Paper / Kindle Length : 248 pages Year : 1Q 2023 (Go 1.1.18)

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My “author interview” for my book “Functional Programming in Go” is out! partnerships.packt.com/interview-with… 😁 And the book itself is also ready for pre-order on Amazon 😎packt.link/TFhFS

@Lynx_Eyes @davefarley77 For any management role reading this. The way to avoid that is to provide context on top of "can we talk". e.g: "Hey, can we talk? I need some input on {xyz}"

@davefarley77 variations: * Can we talk? * We need to talk. All of these, obviously, comming from a hierarchical superior.

Scare a software engineer in 5 words or less 👇

@sarahjeong Back in Belgium, can't recall getting one. In Canada, 3-4 per week? Feels like a lot anyway.

I have a question for people who live outside the US……………. how many spam phone calls are you getting daily, on average 👀 …….. this isn’t just us, right?

@chrisrickard Writing / communication - you'll be writing a lot of documents throughout your career, especially as you move up and start working more on system design problems rather than writing code.

Besides programming, what's the one skill every developer should know?

@shanselman In a job interview, I said "tree" but then spelled it out because I was pretty sure I was saying it wrong. I think it's actually "try" though.

How do you pronounce the “trie” data structure in computer science?

@ZachAMcCoy The manager should be taking that role too imo.

@RoJoHen @JerrySenderson @jthomsonPHIL @coldxman What about the tortoise though? (Jk)

I wonder if the inventor of paper straws ever considered that they would be in prolonged contact with liquid.

@rakyll Honestly, as someone with pretty swamped calendar at Amazon, this is often the only way to make sure that I have the time to read your doc and provide meaningful input.

This is the smartest approach to this problem. It's more than having silent reading minutes at a meeting. It's the culture that people know they can book time on your calendar to make you read a document. twitter.com/nodirt_/status…

@rakyll I know what you mean by that (care about the project / tech etc). But to nit.. care about people (as a manager) is a prerequisite. If a manager does not care it is a bad thing for that IC imo.

One skill set that people don't give you enough feedback about is how much you care. If I had a time machine to go back in time, I'd learn ways to care less. Sometimes caring too much becomes the biggest enemy to achieve anything.

@goodreads “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “Radical Candor”. Both great books so far.

It's Friday! What are you reading this weekend?

@goodreads The Dexter series. Loved the book, loved the series (apart from the finale).

What are your favorite book-to-screen adaptations?

@Nahirk Which game?

@copyconstruct I value EMs who at least have coded for some time, just so there is a shared jargon and understanding of what building software is like. I can’t imagine there would be an IC -> EM who thinks LOC is a good measure for example.

Managers should be able to code and be technical. This take from Elon will put the cat amongst the pigeons on Twitter, but IMO “being technical” is really important for engineering managers. What precisely that means varies depending on the context.

Just seen the new Dr Strange movie and I can’t help but wonder.. are there some serious fans of Mortal Kombat involved with this one? 😅 Definitely expected to hear a voice shout “Fatality!” In some fight scenes 😆

@smdiehl @mxgxw_gamma At least not a recommendation engine to simply sell more books :-)

@smdiehl @mxgxw_gamma Cambridge Analytica might be close to that though? (Not a recommendation engine, but an algorithm based on social network data anyway)

Crypto is the first time computer science has created an artifact that only causes human misery, it is a manifestation of pure evil. Other fields like chemistry and physics have had to grapple with such constructions but this really is a first in computing.

@GergelyOrosz Also, on that topic, I hope no one takes these estimates as a drop-dead date. Anyone who has worked in software for a couple of years should have figured out not to do that 😅

@GergelyOrosz There's also a difference between estimating a task in a sprint, and a project months out for delivery. Further out in the future == lower precision.

Software engineering teams usually take twice as long to get something done as estimated. This is my observation, in general. It’s also the observation 50 years ago, as written in The Mythical Man Month. Incredible how this seems to have remained constant over decades: