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It's very click-baity. "Clean code" primarily means to me descriptive function names and variables, with functions that do one thing, and are not overly long. It's stuff like not using "temp" as a variable name
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The Cameron government learned the lessons of the massively wasteful failed IT projects from the Blair era (see Fujitsu NHS contract). The GDS started well, but I don't think the GDS can continue to cruise on its earlier reputation. It
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I like Neil Young's music, probably for the same reasons you don't. I don't agree with his ultimatum to Spotify, but fair enough if he feels that way. This is also quite a funny video, with Jimmy Fallon covering Neil Young, w
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You edited your comment. > one run and one meal is not gonna make or break someones weight On the contrary, we have had two years of this pandemic. Government messaging could have been a lot stronger on the benefits of exercise. That&#x2
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Obesity is one of the big contributors to Covid infections that require complex hospital care. The two are linked. That's why I think vaccination schemes that offered free food were undermining the "following the science" bit
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> sad that in 1997 I had a 56K dial in modem on a Pentium II running Internet Explorer and today I have a 1Gbps connection on a M1 Images took ages to download on 56k. Performance today is vastly better. There are cases where progress ha
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I doubt the restyled Nokia 3310 comes with spyware https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_gb/nokia-3310
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> People haven’t been paying for offices for the last ten years for no reason. Companies have been paying for open plan offices for years. When I first started my career I found it bizarre that open plan offices were in any way considere
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> Intuition is analytic reasoning on steroids > A simple example is the moment of every episode of House M.D. House M.D. was based on Sherlock Holmes, who uses inductive, rather than deductive reasoning. e.g. conclusions are not based
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I misread the original comment, apologies.
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> Also, what does @SpringBootTest actually do? How does it work? What if I need to do <anything that doesn't align with the simplest use case that the Spring devs cater to>? Who knows! "Just add the annotation, it's
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It's interesting to observe how environmental concerns go out the window, when there is a financial incentive. The fossil fuel companies were justly condemned when they suppressed research around global warming. Sometimes even by the s
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I used Spring Boot and just set debug breakpoints, that way you don't have to step into and out-of, you just press "play" and it moves to the next breakpoint.
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> we'd be doing ourt clients a great disservice to sell them on a microframework with our homespun implementations of security, transactions etc. One of the benefits of Spring Boot was that Pivotal test and ensure all the components
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> Spring documentation is and has always been poor and the sheer volume of outdated documentation Spring documentation is excellent. I had to learn Spring as a PHP developer, so I put the documentation onto a Kindle and read it. It'
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> Sure, until you get tired of typing the same SQL over and over and realize you can cut out most of that crap by adding an ORM. And adding an ORM isn't either/or. You can still use native SQL when necessary.
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> I'm in an enterprise and have successfully lobbied people to use anything other than Spring. I was in a team that used Spring Boot for a greenfield project. The documentation was great, there was tons of help of Stackoverflow (as
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> Spring Boot is not the same thing as Spring Spring Boot is an opinionated way to configure Spring applications. > recapitulating all of the mistakes of EJB Which mistakes is it repeating?
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> Errors are indecipherable being swamped by thousand line framework exception trace Don't you just look at the top lines?
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Well, the point of the scientific method is that it isn't prone to ideology. If those beautiful theories don't work, then they're abandoned. The point remains that there are people who strive to avoid cognitive biases and sel
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We have company support from FAANG, without mentioning which specifically. The library is an SDK used to interface with one of their core products. We raised several issues, including the one I mentioned. They were put on the backlog severa
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> You don't spend nearly as much time mucking around with broken open source components. I was recently frustrated with a poor quality open sourced FAANG library. At one point the error message was something like "Successful: o
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> Yup. As soon as you think you're "non-ideological" at that point you're fully ensconced in ideology I don't think this is the case in every instance at all. I think an individual can strive to scrutinise their
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> advocate "default to integration testing for application functionality". I agree. I've also found that by starting at the top of the test pyramid, keeps focus on the goal. I have recognised sometimes that by starting at
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I never knew this was a thing. I'm not on board with promoting the use of "we" as a replacement for first person singular as being an acceptable societal norm, unless you're the Queen. Sorry, but it is too close to contr
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Types != compilation. PHP provides types but is not compiled.
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> Categorically better for everything and not categorically better for everything you write? For everything. As I mentioned, I started out using dynamically typed languages. I don't agree with your idea that types somehow make it ha
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> I think that says more about your particular mental model of programming than about programming in general. Well, I originally started programming only using dynamic types. Then I moved to typed languages, and I could avoid whole categ
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I found this article a while ago > Every web request starts from a completely blank slate. Its namespace and globals are uninitialized, except for the standard globals, functions and classes that provide primitive functionality and life
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> I'm curious what is the value proposition of the latest PHP version(s). I think more and more people have started to realise that typed languages make better, more reliable software. The incremental additions to PHP's type sy

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