metanonsense

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by metanonsense 5y ago
Some things were also pretty hard back then (a few years later but still). When you were too young for university and your environment was not academic, getting access to information was so difficult. I remember when we made a school trip t
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by metanonsense 5y ago
To me reverting those hundreds of patches sounds like an overreaction, which might cause actual damage. It's not clear (at least from what I have read in the thread) that this code, which may be wrong or at least useless, is part of an
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by metanonsense 6y ago
Last week we lost a bid for a government contract. That's nothing unusual but I almost laughed when they described how they reached that conclusion. They weighted price against quality at a ratio of 80 to 20. I mean: really?
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by metanonsense 6y ago
Being trapped in economy class for 16 hours usually breaks me mentally and physically. But imagining this torture leaves me in complete horror.
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by metanonsense 6y ago
Like many things that have the potential to make you feel clever, e.g. machine learning, functional programming, DDD can easily be overused / used for the wrong reasons, at least if it's not mastered to a certain level. When I fir
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by metanonsense 6y ago
When new collegues are joining our team or people start working on a subsystem unfamiliar to them, I usually tell them that this is a great opportunity for us as an organization and that they should be very vocal about everything that appea
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by metanonsense 7y ago
I don't know. "No change on Friday" also sounds like a reasonable rule when it comes to essential parts of the human body.
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by metanonsense 7y ago
One thing that I don't fully agree with is the treatment of Dependency Inversion. As I see it, the Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) and Dependency Injection (DI) are quite different things living in different dimensions. While DI,