bguthrie

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   by bguthrie 16y ago

   I agree that not all of the things you list necessarily reduce errors, or that those that do increase productivity over the long run, because you sort of straw-manned me a little bit there. Me, I don't love strong type systems. But garbage
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   by bguthrie 16y ago

   It's not more marketing, Zed, it's years and years and years of evidence that poorly-managed memory is a major source of error in design, and folks in the application development and security fields trying to pass along a message to avoid
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   by bguthrie 16y ago

   I am a developer who works on teams that use agile processes. I happen to believe they work better, based on my subjective experiences with other approaches, but I don't really have the kind of numbers one really needs to back up each indiv
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   by bguthrie 16y ago

   I think his primary appeal is that, in a world that tends mostly towards people like yourself, who view programming as science (or engineering), he unapologetically took the opposing view. Your perspective is commonly shared; his perspectiv
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   Deploy your site without downtime using a web proxy written in node.js(pgrs.net)

   3 points by bguthrie 17y ago|1 comments
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   by bguthrie 17y ago

   It's true that you lose some time by doing this. But my experience has been that it inevitably improves the quality of your code if you and your team are forced to think about interfaces and common pain points by moving towards reuse. Your