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When you signed that employment contract, did you notice the fine print about potentially being conscripted during a national emergency? Yeah, I didn’t think so. But buckle up, because we need to talk about something that’s been quietly creeping into policy frameworks around the world: the possibility that your ability to write clean code might make you as essential to national security as a hospital worker or power grid engineer....

Stack Overflow is simultaneously the salvation and the suspected villain in modern software development. It’s that friend who always has the answer at 2 AM when you’re debugging a regex pattern you’re pretty sure shouldn’t exist in the first place. Yet somewhere in the executive hallway, someone in a blazer is probably pacing back and forth, muttering about “IP protection” and “unauthorized code borrowing.” Should companies actually ban Stack Overflow? Let’s talk about why that’s like banning Wikipedia to prevent plagiarism—it’s a band-aid solution that misses the actual disease....

Переполнение стека — это одновременно спасение и подозреваемый злодей в современной разработке программного обеспечения. Это тот друг, который всегда знает ответ в 2 часа ночи, когда вы отлаживаете регулярное выражение, которое, как вам кажется, вообще не должно существовать. Но где-то в коридоре исполнительной власти кто-то в пиджаке, вероятно, ходит взад и вперёд, бормоча о «защите интеллектуальной собственности» и «несанкционированном заимствовании кода». Стоит ли компаниям запрещать использование Stack Overflow? Давайте поговорим о том, почему это всё равно что запретить Википедию, чтобы предотвратить плагиат — это временное решение, которое не устраняет реальную проблему....

Every week, without fail, a new framework lands on Hacker News. Every month, a “revolutionary” architecture pattern emerges from a tech conference. Every quarter, some startup with $50M in funding tells us that the way we’ve been building software for the last decade is now categorically wrong. And you know what? They’re probably not wrong. They’re just… incomplete. Here’s the thing nobody wants to hear at tech conferences: the best tool for your problem might be the one you already know how to use....

The Ultimate Job Security Hack Nobody’s Talking About Let’s be honest: in the world of software development, there’s an unspoken strategy that’s been floating around for decades. It’s whispered about in dark corners of tech forums and hinted at in Reddit threads at 3 AM. I’m talking about the art of writing code so deliberately obtuse, so magnificently cryptic, that you become the only person on Earth capable of maintaining it....