professional-programming VS linux

Professional Programming by Charles-Axel Dein

The inclusion of the perspective section: https://github.com/charlax/professional-programming?tab=read... I think is really smart. Same for personal productivity. Two things that can dramatically change how and what you end up studying and doing with your time / life.

I did a coding bootcamp and yeah the frontend knowledge they taught was useful, but I could have learned that online for free. Looking back, the far more valuable thing I learned was how to discipline myself and my time - that was the first time in my life I was truly disciplined and mindful in how I spent my time. I also got perspective I'd never seen before: there was some folks in my cohort that were in their 30s and 40s and undergoing career change, and I learned two things from them: First, don't stress too much, your life has much more flexibility than you might expect (this truth is borne out, they all have perfectly successful careers in their new lives as engineers), and second, make a great use of the time you have.

Bog-standard advice we all know, but to witness it firsthand from people living it and sharing it is different. The shared article in the github is incredible: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/07/termin...

I often wonder why I don't see more of these sorts of articles. From watching a family member slowly die of cancer, and from reading books like "When Breath Becomes Air," I'm guessing it's some combination of exhaustion, disability, and a new set of priorities that doesn't really involve death blogging. Still, I find these kinds of writings more poignant than most things I read.

Also this repo helps https://github.com/charlax/professional-programming

1. Professional Programming

Professional Programming. As reported, The goal of this page is to make you a more proficient developer. If you have excellent resources, you can try to open a PR and include them here. But in any csae, I wanted to include this because it seems super interesting.

The latest kernel as of today still supports the 486SX ! (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.17-rc1/arch/x86/Kc...)

11k defines is nothing, the files in nbio are so big, github even refuses to parse them:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/gpu/dr...

That's 38900 lines worth of defines.

struct page in Linux is this taken to its logical conclusion.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/89be9a83ccf1f88522317...

- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

> Electron Performance Crisis: Modern email clients built with Electron and React Native suffer from severe memory bloat and performance issues. These cross-platform frameworks, while convenient for developers, create resource-heavy applications that consume hundreds of megabytes to gigabytes of RAM for basic email functionality.

No (real) customer has ever, or will ever, care about this. Discord and Slack are pretty much case-in-points: bloated Electron apps that just about everyone on the planet has installed on their computers. I personally hate React, but technology decisions are irrelevant to the long-term success of startups. (As long as they don't grossly interfere with customer experience, the feature set, etc.)

> Final Warning: After analyzing hundreds of email startups, the evidence is overwhelming - 80%+ fail completely. Email isn't broken, and trying to "fix" it is a guaranteed path to failure.

First, I'd bet money that figure is actually wrong: the failure rate is likely way higher than 80%. And I'm honestly not sure how anyone could seriously think a 20% exit rate is bad in just about any vertical (but especially a "boring" one like email).

> Resources: Volunteer developers can't sustain enterprise-level software

What am I even reading here? Author does realize openssl[1], Linux[2], and many other "enterprise-level" pieces of software are entirely (or almost entirely) maintained by volunteer developers, right?

Anyway, the post had its opposite intended effect on me: it made me think about ways I could reinvent email.

[1] https://github.com/openssl/openssl

[2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux

Yeah, it's very easy. Real devices usually adhere to the specs.. only very few exceptions: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blame/master/drivers/hid/h... .. /s

What is the source of “Firefox Moves to GitHub”? It could just be a mirror, just like Linux also has an official mirror on GitHub.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

It's basically the same in the x86 world : your bios is customised to the board

The sad part is that on ARM the kernel is usually also custom compiled for the board.

If you go and look in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/arch/arm you see a zillion "mach-xxx" directories for different SoC architectures, even if they all use Arm.

Device-tree is a partial solution, but no-one seems to have an incentive to finish the job and let a single image run on any (sufficiently recent) arm board. It's difficult for the community to fix because most people have only their own board. Someone would need to pay for a CI rig with every board, and some kernel devs to do the work of building a single kernel to run across everything.

Linux is a open source OS Kernel Unix based created by Linus Torvals in 1997 and released on GitHub and this OS turn so popular because is 100% free to download, make your own OS called Distro(Distribution or Linux Distribution) and every Distro are ruled to be Free and a lot of Linux based Distros was make, the most popular is :