Type 2 can have a reduced insulin production, as well as the insulin resistance. In fact, insulin resistance can put increased demand on production and exhaust the producing islet cells.
Since type 2 is not an immune system disease, in that case there’s no need for immune suppressing drugs!
I was talking with a friend who mentioned “taking tea to India”. It made me wonder what the equivalents are around the world. “Taking coals to Newcastle” is the UK’s.
Like in the same vein as Ask Amy or Dear Prudence. I’m trying to get away from Best of Redditor Updates but I’m not ready to quit my “oh no she didn’t!” addiction just yet.
Hello everyone, first post over here, I’m a junior dev that was working on an open source picture organizer based on location groups within sub-directories, like streets and cities (inferred from EXIF geotags being extracted and sent to a reverse geocoding API) which I’ve first coined as GeoPicSorter (outlined in its home...
There’s a few different things, I think, that are wrapped up in this.
Generated UI code is unmaintainable
Finding (and using) a good cross-platform UI library is hard
Setting up a new project and packaging for it is hard
To start with the first, yes, generated code can be useful to quickly get something started. After that, in general you’ll need to adapt it and grow it be coding from there on. Round-trip (going back to the design tool from code) tends to not work that well.
There’s good UI libraries, but cross platform tends to be difficult. Oddly enough, a lot more work has been done to create good cross-platform UI on mobile than for desktop. Interestingly enough, flutter seems to also be bridging that towards desktop. Another ecosystem, another language (dart), but much clearer about how you should build, and plenty of documentation on easily building, from code, user interfaces.
Taking a small step back, I’d like to say that one thing you might want to start with is to look at your current code and try to restructure it in such a way that you separate the core of the functionality from the user interface. This can be a tricky process, and reading up on refactoring techniques is going to be useful. It might also really help in this process of potentially moving to a different language, because it will be so much clearer what you are moving, and what is incidental and just related to the framework you are working in.
Don’t confuse a bad work environment with not liking or being suitable for your job.
If you liked programming, do your work in the way that made you originally liked programming. People will put pressure on you to just “do things”. Don’t. Ensure you start understanding, slowly get more insight into what’s going on. Ask the people around you any and all questions you need to get more understanding. Allow yourself to learn. That is the only way to start feeling in control, and the only way to become ‘more senior’.
That being said. If you want to move on, there’s no harm, and no shame. Just do it because you’ll be doing something you know you will like better.
I’m currently a senior developer, but relatively new in the role of a “lead”. In my current project, I’m having a kind of co-lead and we have two devs working in our team. So a rather small enterprise....
Realise you need to spend most of your time working with your more junior developers, making sure that they understand the problems they’re solving, doing some whiteboard-design sessions, jumping in and pairing frequently to teach them as well as keep things going in the right direction. A lot of that is giving your team enough confidence that they’re going in the right direction that they can make the decisions they need to make.
But you should not see yourself as someone that picks up tasks and gets things done by themselves. You need to work through your team. That can be difficult. And if the team gets larger, that gets even more difficult! You’ll need to find some seniors you can trust, and use them to pick up some of that leadership/guiding work. You will run the risk of getting further removed from the practical technical work, and will have to find a balance. You’ll probably be doing more work around the team than in the team. Maybe get involved with planning more.
But the most important thing is the above: make things clear for your team(s), don’t leave them guessing about the direction, but don’t prescribe the solution too much, teach as much as you can, but give people room to make their own decisions too.
Whether you’re steering an open source project or leading full-time a software development team, the key to maximizing productivity lies in efficient code reviews.
My grocery store is 0.25 miles away. That’s the farthest I go within a month apart from the bank. I realize that it would be ableist to expect everyone to carry two tote bags full of groceries back from somewhere that far regularly walking, but like what if there could be a service for disabled people to fetch groceries that...
Nice. It doesn’t seem to make any difference in the URL scheme what type of fediverse resource is being referenced. From what I understand, some of those are interchangeable, but some are not. How will the browser know whether to open a Mastodon, Lemmy or Kbin client?
I’d say that is another one of those policies that center-right parties have been avoiding, certainly in the Netherlands. The lack of investment in affordable housing and policies around rent control have been a significant issue. Those are also public services.
We are in a very funny situation where I just spent two weeks fixing FE bugs and there are so many left. I asked to add integration tests but the answer was “no”, cause we can’t test the UI and all of that....
It’s very hard to start writing tests for a codebase that was not tested while it was being written.
“Be more careful” is obviously just wishful thinking, but the pain apparently hasn’t become bad enough for the need to better quality to have become apparent to everyone.
When people say “we can’t test the UI”, there’s often a reason that they are reluctant. One reason can be that they think you want to test through the UI, and write slow and cumbersome end-to-end tests. Those tend to become unmaintainable at record speeds, and if you’ve experienced the amount of work and aggravation that can cause, you tend to become reluctant. When you ask for ‘integration tests’, this might be the thing people are hearing.
That being said, there’s plenty of ways to test UI code locally, at the unit and component level. Depending on your tech stack, of course. Those types of tests you can just start creating without a big investment. In a codebase that’s not tested, that can be difficult, but try and make the changes you need to make to isolate logic, so it can be tested as a unit test. It’ll give you better code, and teach you a lot about structuring code so that you separate responsibilties.
It’s a term coined by Cory Doctorow, Sci-Fi writer and ex-EFF, who has been writing about (tech) monopolies, and in particular monopsonies, and how those types of two sided markets originally grow by given users something they need, often for an artificial low price or even free, until they dominate that side of the market, after which they focus mostly on the other side of the market, in this case advertisers, and step by step, slowly dismantling the reason users originally liked their product… Enshittification.
In many parts of Europe, it’s common for workers to take off weeks at a time, especially during the summer. Envious Americans say it’s time for the U.S. to follow suit....
Having a ‘sick leave’ limit is just incredibly weird. As if you could just stop being sick when the time runs out!
I mean, we do get a company/regulatory doctor assigned if we’re sick for a longer period of time, and after, like, a year you will go to a reduced insured income. But counting it as if it were discretionary does not make sense.
Of course, if one employee being away would cause a company to fall apart, us Dutch would conclude management is completely incompetent, and tell them that.
A 3 week vacation is pretty normal, here. But we do plan those ahead. That means you might not be able to take it on the specific dates you have in mind. But not that you won’t be able to take it!
World’s first diabetes cure with cell therapy achieved in China (interestingengineering.com)
What is your country's "coals to Newcastle"?
I was talking with a friend who mentioned “taking tea to India”. It made me wonder what the equivalents are around the world. “Taking coals to Newcastle” is the UK’s.
Best advice columnists?
Like in the same vein as Ask Amy or Dear Prudence. I’m trying to get away from Best of Redditor Updates but I’m not ready to quit my “oh no she didn’t!” addiction just yet.
If you were Jesus, what would you get God for Father's Day?
Looking for directions to re-write my program
Hello everyone, first post over here, I’m a junior dev that was working on an open source picture organizer based on location groups within sub-directories, like streets and cities (inferred from EXIF geotags being extracted and sent to a reverse geocoding API) which I’ve first coined as GeoPicSorter (outlined in its home...
Should I quit engineering?
I could use some honest advice from experienced programmers and engineers....
Tips/Resources/Guidance for becoming an okayish lead?
I’m currently a senior developer, but relatively new in the role of a “lead”. In my current project, I’m having a kind of co-lead and we have two devs working in our team. So a rather small enterprise....
How does your daily commute to work look like?
I’m assuming that most of you are from the US so probably using cars, but lemme know if you use trains, subways, buses, etc....
How to conduct an effective code review (optimizedbyotto.com)
Whether you’re steering an open source project or leading full-time a software development team, the key to maximizing productivity lies in efficient code reviews.
How could a three to five minute level of urban planning be incorporated into larger city systems?
My grocery store is 0.25 miles away. That’s the farthest I go within a month apart from the bank. I realize that it would be ableist to expect everyone to carry two tote bags full of groceries back from somewhere that far regularly walking, but like what if there could be a service for disabled people to fetch groceries that...
fedi-uri: A URI Scheme for Fediverse resources (github.com)
Migration crackdowns won’t help Europe’s moderate right (www.ft.com)
Recent electoral inroads for the far right reflect public dislike of government cuts in public services...
How do I convince my company to add tests for FE?
We are in a very funny situation where I just spent two weeks fixing FE bugs and there are so many left. I asked to add integration tests but the answer was “no”, cause we can’t test the UI and all of that....
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Warns Android Users Not to Sideload Apps (www.gizmochina.com)
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66% of Americans want European-style vacation policies, like being OOO for the entire month of August (www.cnbc.com)
In many parts of Europe, it’s common for workers to take off weeks at a time, especially during the summer. Envious Americans say it’s time for the U.S. to follow suit....
What are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux?
I start: the most important thing is not the desktop, it’s the package manager.