Office Hours Transcript: 2021-11-06

Hey Mark

good afternoon, I would like to ask you a meta question

well no, is about the process of coding. you are developer since ages, sometimes I miss a strategy to solve problems, my senior said that if I am stressed out I do not find solutions, and is right, after the working hours without thinking about velocity, I SLOWED DOWN and PARADOXICALLY I was at least three times more efficient, focusing and instead to try to bet changing the code trying to find the solution to a problem. I am wondering what are your thought about this topic, that is really important

did you ever considered to bring your experience to give a forma mentis to junior developer regardless of the language?

my senior that is really good say that stack overflow are tape duck solutions, and I need to go to the root of the causes, and i think is right

I see, is used also in Mckinsey this approach, the under the shower thought

and uncle bob says that he goes biking as well when has a problem

or walking

yes I need to manage that I give the best of my self when I am relaxed, under pressure I am not efficient, I am faster but my problem solving does not work so efficient

but regardless of a pause do you think that there are some ways to approach coding problems that may help?

I read a book saying that algorithms are solved with a divide and conquer approach, starting with the simplest use case and adding on top, and this is the strategy I use often, sometimes I do not know how I am implementing the code, but starting out with small steps magically i go through the solution

my educated guess is that this is a field that people like you which are veterans can bring contributions

anyway sorry for the rant

are you happy with android 12?

mmh

interesting

sorry to say that but as you may know I am quite into the financial world, and there was two three years ago an article from the economist about how google is changed since the founders stepped away, is more about regulamentation and does not have an hedge in terms of creativity as before

but do not know still have to read the book from chet about android

well I guess you gonna love, because you followed the dev from the beginning

anyway I really hope in unified solution to develop hoping KMM is going as rumored to implement compose for iOS, makes sense. But I know already your opinion about

I guess is the only way to go otherwise flutter risk to become the standard because more and more plugins are developed, and so the performance improvements

wish you a nice evening, go back to python, in the mere quest of hope to become richer with algo trade,

thanks as always for your opinion

thanks have a nice day as well