You have been using it every day without paying attention. — Throughout my journey working with data, I have discovered a tool that will help save your time and make you more productive, no matter what programming language you are using. The shell. When you run any program from the terminal, you are actually using shell to run it. …

The default MacOS terminal is not for you, or anyone really — Have you ever bought a mattress? Let me tell you about my experience with the notorious mattress salesmen. Salesmen would talk their way into making you buy something you don’t really need or a more expensive version of something you do need. Personally, I like to shop in peace. That…

The story of how I almost got into trouble with my ex-CEO. — Picture this, an undergraduate student sitting in front of his laptop. The clock is showing 5:15 AM, he has just pulled an all-nighter to finish a project which has 7:00 AM deadline. …

Preparing yourself to face responses from Medium members — I came across this article a few days ago. Advice from a senior dev: Stop using the implicit “else” I think there’s a tendency — among junior devs, at least — to think that the shorter the code, the better. But that’s…javascript.plainenglish.io The title piqued my interest, because the proposed idea contradicts what I usually do in my code. I would use continue and break inside a loop or a return inside a function instead of adding explicit else.

No more fumbling around with HTML pages — “Can you create a demo for this feature?” I read the Slack notification bubble pops up on my screen. It was from my manager. Okay, you got this; you have made demos with Flask before; you have that one GitHub repo you can copy the templates from. Link to GitHub…

When quick sort is too quick — When you hear of sorting algorithm, which one pops up first in your head? Quick sort? Merge sort? Bubble Sort? Back in university, one of my professors always told the class that quick sort is like the Apple of sorting world because they are very good at marketing. …

You will learn a lot of things, but most of them are probably wrong — “Oh, don’t worry about it, the model usually took 8 hours to finish.” My then-manager told me on my second day of working in this AI startup. He asked me to do some code refactoring while waiting for it to complete. Eight hours might sound normal for a large machine…

Definitely one of the cleverest solutions I have ever come across — Are you a software engineer or data scientist? Did you ever prepare yourself for coding interviews? If you answer yes for both questions, chances are you have heard of LeetCode. For those unfamiliar with LeetCode, it is a site filled with thousands of coding problems that people can use to…

Hint: definitely not suitable for data science projects — Run Your Python Code as Fast as C How you can supercharge the performance of your python code without changing a thing.towardsdatascience.com For the last few days, the story linked above has ranked #1 in “Trending on Medium” list. When I first stumbled upon it, it only had less than 100 claps. Now that it has thousands of them, I feel the need to set things straight.