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How To Deal With Technical Debt
So, instead of stabilizing the situation, the business keeps adding more features, and the technical debt grows. Because of this, we usually say that technical debt is not a technical problem. For that reason, every software development team must try their best to prevent the technical debt from accumulating so it doesn't result in the worst-case scenario, which is a project halt.
Technical debt is everything that stops us from developing software quickly. Martin Fowler explains in his technical debt quadrant four different pathways that lead to technical debt creation [4], but there are more. We can see this, especially with startup companies that want to go fast and don’t think about quality first.
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Taming "Lazy" ChatGPT : Strategies for Comprehensive and Reliable Outputs
You've been noticing ChatGPT getting lazier - truncating code, omitting details, making silly mistakes that waste your time. Maddening! This guide reveals prompting secrets to transform the AI from an inconsistent frustration into a tireless, reliable assistant.
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Why Gen-Z and Millennials Are More Likely to Jump Straight Into Entrepreneurship After Graduation - Inc.com (No paywall)
Young people are turning down job offers to launch their own companies. Here's a look at the reasons.
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Climeworks Kicks Off Operations at World's Largest Carbon Removal Facility - Inc.com (No paywall)
The Swiss company announced the opening of a new facility in Iceland that will allow it to capture 36,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere annually.
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Apple iPad ad obliterates the tools of human creativity with a hydraulic press to hype its ‘thinnest product yet.’ Offended consumers reversed the ad to make it a less ‘horrific corporate nightmare' - Fortune (No paywall)
The spot appears to be having the unintended effect of turning people off their devices: “This ad effectively convinced me I need less technology in my life,” a user posted on X.
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Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail
Google scientists have modelled a fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution, revealing cells with previously undiscovered features.
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The world has (probably) passed peak pollution
Of course, emissions are not falling everywhere. They’ve fallen steeply in richer countries like the US and much of Europe. And the big turning point for the global figures has been the rapid turnaround in China. Emissions have declined rapidly in the last decade, with huge gains for public health.
The goal now is to see if countries can move through this curve much faster – and with lower levels of pollution – than countries like the US or the UK did. This should be doable: we’ve learned a lot over the last 50 years about how to produce energy with less pollution, what technologies work and don’t work, and have reduced the costs of solutions that were expensive in their early days.
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A New Book Might Convince You About “Plant Intelligence”
Most modern humans regard plants as alive but a bit boring by the standards of creatures that can move around freely. They're wrong.
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Made in America: The Ridiculous History of 'OK'
In the early 19th century, new printing technologies dramatically reduced the cost of publishing a daily newspaper, and there was a resulting explosion of inexpensive new dailies known collectively as the penny press. Competing for readers, penny papers in cities like New York, Philadelphia and Boston published not only straight news stories, but also witty takes on the latest political scandals, social scenes and popular trends.
In addition to the abbreviation craze, 19th-century Americans thought it was really funny to purposely misspell stuff. Read, the etymologist, cited the example of the comic writer George W. Arnold, who used the pen name "Joe Strickland" to write mangled letters to his fictional family, like this one from a trip abroad: "when I got here tha axt me if I was evver in Turky before. no ses I. but i've had a darn menny turkeys in me."
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Under Joe Biden, America struggles to reassert itself in Africa - The Economist (No paywall)
As Chinese and Russian influence rise, the odds are against it
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Friday 10th May 2024
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