cointelegraph.com

Crypto community reacts to mainstream media coverage of FTX’s implosion: criticism, misogyny and more
The crypto community has criticized Forbes magazine for dubbing Caroline Ellison “Queen Caroline” and “a new darling of the alt-right.”


dev.to

Code Smell 180 - BitWise Optimizations
Bitwise operators are faster. Avoid these micro-optimizations

TL;DR: Don't use bitwise operators unless your business model is bitwise logic.



Problems

Readability
Clevereness
Premature Optimization
Maintainability
Bijection Violation



Solutions

Improve readability



Context

Some clever programmers solve problems we don't have.

We should optimize code based on evidence and use the scientific method.

We should benchmark only if necessary and improve code only if really necessary and bear the cost of changeability and maintainability.



Sample Code



Wrong

const nowInSeconds = ~~(Date.now() / 1000)



Right

const nowInSeconds = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000)



Detection

[X] Semi-Automatic

We can tell our linters to warn us and manually check if it is worth the change.



Exceptions

Real-time and mission-critical software.



Tags

Premature Optimization



Conclusion

If we find this code in a pull request or code review, we need to understand the reasons. If they are not justified, we should do a rollback and change it to a normal logic.



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More Info

Tilde Operator ~~

Javascript BitWise Operators



Disclaimer

Code Smells are just my opinion.



Credits

Photo by Frédéric Barriol on Unsplash

Original Article Here.

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Wickr’s free encrypted messaging app is shutting down next year
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge


Wickr Me, the free encrypted messaging app owned by Amazon Web Services, is shutting down on December 31st, 2023. In a post on its website, Wickr says the app will stop accepting new user registrations on December 31st, 2022 before going away completely next year.