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Predictions
Being able to predict what’s coming up in the future allows you to make better decisions right now. Better decisions will give you more chances to actually change the current direction rather than just getting caught up in the flow.

The first part of enhancing predictions is to accept that there is only one objective reality. Although it surrounds all of us, we only ever ...

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Hedging
A long time ago, I remember someone trying to convince me that sufficient testing would prevent ‘all’ bugs. All you need are tests.

That’s never been the case for me, even after all of these decades. 
At the very best, with a gifted team, we were super careful, had strict standards, and hyper-intense reviews, but we still had one bug escape. Worse, though, was tha...

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Data Stitching
If you collect some data with respect to a specific context, when there are significant changes in that context, the original data no longer fits seamlessly with any newly collected data.

One way to handle this is to change all of the old data, updating it to the new changes. This works, but it could take quite a while in production and can be extremely risky. A change in...

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Language Ideas
Decades ago, our project had a convention where we never directly used ANSI C primitive types, unless it was trivial in a loop. But for any and all other variables, everything had to be typedef’d explicitly. Everything.

Some people would see that as excessive and way over the top, but it actually turned out to be a very good habit that helps with getting really high quali...

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The Craft of Programming
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