The Daily Index — Wednesday, June 12, 2024 · TLDR Index

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MY VERY FIRST PRODUCTION BUG

A developer working on an autonomous driving system encountered an issue where a new, faster camera made the tracking system worse. The root cause was a preprocessor directive for the framerate, which was mistakenly defined as an integer and not a floating-point number due to a missing decimal point. This caused the sampling time to be calculated as zero, leading to incorrect position predictions by the Kalman filter.

robinverschueren.com · 3 min

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SOMETIMES, OBJECT PROPERTY ORDER MATTERS

Since version 4.7, the order of properties in an object in TypeScript can affect type inference. This change was introduced to address bugs related to context-sensitive functions, but it can lead to unexpected errors when properties are reordered.

totaltypescript.com · 4 min

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THREE LAWS OF SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY (OR: WHY SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ARE ALWAYS GRUMPY)

There are three fundamental laws of software complexity: systems inevitably degrade in design quality over time, successful systems create complexity through leaky abstractions to gain market share, and there is no upper limit to the complexity a system can reach. Most engineers end up working on poorly designed systems, which only grow more intricate and challenging to work on over time.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min

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CLEVER CODE IS PROBABLY THE WORST CODE YOU COULD WRITE

Clear, readable code is more valuable than clever code in the long run. This developer's experience at a large tech company revealed that even though clear code might seem trivial, it's actually more difficult to write and maintain. In order to “preserve complexity” for promotion packets, documentation was important for demonstrating the complexity of the work.

read.engineerscodex.com · 8 min

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SELF-SERVE DASHBOARDS

Self-serve BI dashboards don't work because they assume that the main barrier for business stakeholders is writing SQL queries, while the real issue is the lack of context and understanding of the data.

briefer.cloud · 4 min

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THE COST OF SHUTTING DOWN THE INTERNET

A recent survey examined the economic impact of internet outages on countries and businesses and found that the United States and Amazon would face the highest financial losses in such a scenario. The U.S. would incur a $11 billion loss in a 24-hour outage, while Amazon would suffer a $1.5 billion loss in the same period.

cloudzero.com · 8 min

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EVEN APPLE MAKES MISTAKES (REDDIT THREAD)

Apple forgot to add a border radius to an image on its website, which made an iPhone screen look weird.

links.tldrnewsletter.com

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ESSAYS ON PROGRAMMING I THINK ABOUT A LOT

A collection of programming essays on various topics, such as falsehoods programmers believe, choosing boring technology, becoming a more effective programmer, and more.

benkuhn.net · 14 min

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ANNOUNCING ARC PRIZE

A $1M+ prize for new ideas to progress AI towards AGI.

arcprize.org · 6 min

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MALICIOUS VSCODE EXTENSIONS WITH MILLIONS OF INSTALLS DISCOVERED

Researchers found malicious extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace, including a fake version of the popular Dracula theme.

bleepingcomputer.com · 10 min