FrankWilhoit

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   by FrankWilhoit 4y ago

   CORBA was the right idea, but no one knows how to design protocols. No one understands idempotency or its intersection with partitioning. Also, the uptake of a facility like CORBA is determined by the quality of the documentation that is m
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   by FrankWilhoit 4y ago

   Fewest lines of code, or fewest expressions? Suppose you open/read/process/writeback/close on one "line": in principle that is five expressions, and it is supported by a vast volume of code in the lower layers
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   by FrankWilhoit 4y ago

   Make things work.
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   by FrankWilhoit 4y ago

   It's not about how much complexity. It is about how well complexity is managed. This is one of those things that is not taught because the people who might teach it seem to think it is obvious. It is not obvious and it is not easy;
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   by FrankWilhoit 4y ago

   Bad managers come from responsibility-without-authority, which comes from a climate of unaccountability. They also come from the notion that "management" is a distinct and universal skill, whereas in fact what is needed is the ab
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   by FrankWilhoit 4y ago

   The ease or otherwise of management depends entirely upon the local notion of what "management" is. This varies widely, but usually consists largely of somebody's hobbyhorses, unrelated to pragmatic considerations.