- Using spaces Instead of tabs. You should always, always use tabs, not spaces.
- Using tabs instead of spaces. You should always, always, use spaces.
- Not using auto-formatting. Forget all that tabs/spaces rubbish, what’s wrong with you – auto-format your code and then people won’t have to look at your weird ideas about brackets anti spaces.
- Using IDES, which have features such as auto-formatting and nicely-coloured buttons. code should be written in vi or Emacs, thus ensuring the purity of the programming experience.
- Not using IDES. No-one wants to pay for the time it’s going to take you to type things that you could have done at the click of a button, or scroll up and down using some ridiculous key combination invoked using LISP
- Failing to learn C and C++. It’s really important to learn the two absolute essential languages. You think Java is just as good? Fine, write me a real-time control system for racing cars in Java and I’ll believe you.
- Learning C or C++ when you could be using something modern like Java instead. Admit it —all your schedules involving C or C++ overrun by five years. And even then the software turns out to have critical flaws that Java would not even have allowed you to create.
- Overrunning the end of an array.
Author: Nitesh Gautam
On good deeds
no good deed goes unpunished
What’s the origin of the saying ‘no good deed goes unpunished’? – Quora (https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-origin-of-the-saying-no-good-deed-goes-unpunished)
Source 2: Alfie
on moving
On avoiding billions in taxes
When Apple’s efforts to reduce its taxes around the world came under fire in Congress a few years ago, CEO Tim Cook fired back. “We do not depend on tax gimmicks,” Cook said. “We do not stash money on some Caribbean island.”
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The world’s most profitable firm has a secretive new structure that would enable it to continue avoiding billions in taxes, the Paradise Papers show.
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Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its controversial Irish tax practices by actively shopping around for a tax haven.
It then moved the firm holding most of its untaxed offshore cash, now $252bn, to the Channel Island of Jersey.
Sources:
Paradise Papers: Apple’s secret tax bolthole revealed
Apple Avoiding Billions in Taxes With Island of Jersey Plan
