On the subject of what you know that just ain't so, text. It ain't all ASCII anymore. ASCII is almost 60 years old stands for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange". It's great for American English, but Unicode is a thing and it's here to stay. Any time you deal with (or ever hope to deal with) international users you need to speak Unicode. Here's a quick primer. It's 15 years old, but AFAIK everything said is still true
What do we know, what don't we know, and how to figure it out.
We've got lots of data, but we're not the only ones. Think about CERN. The keep gigabytes/sec for 10s of Pb per experiment and they run multiple experiments a year.
Meetings. They're a part of life, and with teams spread across 3 time zones, 5+ buildings and a test track, meetings with at least one person not in the room are common, almost the norm. Some are great, some are terrible, and most are kind of mediocre. Unless you're that one person who's remote. In that case great meetings are like unicorns. We've heard about them. Some of us have even been in them, but they're rare, All hope is not lost though. Here are some tips for making hybrid and all remote meetings work better.
http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2016/06/16/long-names-are-long And that doesn't even touch the use of acronyms and tribal knowledge.
Here's a handy checklist for asking coding questions. It's targeted at StackOverflow and non-realtime questions in general, but the list applies to asking questions directly of someone else as well. The better you understand and can explain your question the more likely you'll get an answer.
Single Entry Single Exit or not. Here's two viewpoints. Return Early, Return Often and Are You a Hacker or a Designer?
I have no idea if this is a good idea or not, but LEGO.
An oldie but a goody. I sure wish there was a part 2, but at least we've got part 1.
Linting has come a long way. I
first used PC-Lint back when it was new and it was valuable back then. Today linters do a lot more than look for
strangely placed ,s that change the meaning of a statement. Today, a list
of common
issues found/reported by Intel's PVS-Studio.
