michaelfeathers

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   by michaelfeathers 11y ago

   I like the IO monad in Haskell because it places a tax on mingled code. It's easier to keep IO at the top level and just call into pure code.
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   by michaelfeathers 11y ago

   My understanding is that GNU Smalltalk is text based. http://smalltalk.gnu.org/ I hope that helps.
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   by michaelfeathers 11y ago

   > Toyota had more than 10,000 global variables. “And in practice, five, ten, okay, fine. 10,000, no, we're done. It is not safe, and I don't need to see all 10,000 global variables to know that that is a problem,” Koo
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   by michaelfeathers 11y ago

   I've always wondered about the surface tension and viscosity of lava. Must vary with temperature, I suppose.
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   by michaelfeathers 11y ago

   Surely there's some sort of sous vide thing that could be done.
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   by michaelfeathers 11y ago

   I really want to know what it would be like to dip the steak in molten lava, let it solidify and then crack to serve. If there's a sweet spot between time to solidify, thickness of steak, and not burned to a gristle all the way through
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   by michaelfeathers 11y ago

   I think FP works okay, but at the appropriate scale. Tell Above, and Ask Below. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3876136 When functional code gets unwieldy, it's probably time to place an object layer above it. You
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   by michaelfeathers 11y ago

   I'm a native of Miami and I think the article is right. The joke here is that Calle Ocho will be part of Brickell in 20 years - Brickell is creeping south. Personally, as much as I like San Francisco I prefer Miami's slow road to
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   by michaelfeathers 12y ago

   It would be poetic if they put up Visual SourceSafe.
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    > Even the dev with the fix wasn't rude about the original problem, he seemed pretty humble about it actually. The Ruby community is very good interpersonally from my experience. It's a culture that I think comes from this: ht
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    Someone could probably spin a great science fiction story around the idea that tardigrades are an advance team for exploration by extraterrestrials.
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    "Basic Principals" -> "Basic Principles"
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    I don't want to see one that rough either. But a little rougher visually would be nice. People do play with this space in typeface but rarely computer typeface.
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    I wonder why we stopped? Art, architecture and interior design have moved beyond modernism toward richer aesthetics. I'm not sure I'd want to use an interface that looks like Szimpla Kert ( http://bebudapest.hu/wp-
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    It's great to see seams thought of at the language design level.
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    It's not multiple levels of abstraction, it's more like technical empathy - putting yourself in the position of being on the other side of an API.
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    > It's very important to work out assumptions and to be able to explore your models to find out where you've gone wrong. I agree and that's what I was getting at. To me, it's 'programming' when create someth
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    I notice the same thing with Ruby's 'unless'. I think it has to do with the mapping of English to programming. Sort of like the fact that 'or' can be inclusive or exclusive.
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    I encounter programmers after they learn loops, but I have noticed that many programmers have trouble with recursion and something there's no word for, but it's the ability to imagine oneself on both sides of an API. Real cognitiv
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    > We build mental models of everything - from how to tie our shoes to the way macro-economic systems work. With these, we make decisions, predictions, and understand our experiences. If we want computers to be able to compute for us, the
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    Moving Quickly with Compositional Chains(michaelfeathers.silvrback.com)

    1 points by michaelfeathers 12y ago|0 comments
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    Yes, it is link journalism. I wish I could find another article on this that was on HN about a year ago. The takeaway was that closed and open offices each have their benefits and liabilities, and that the ideal is to have open areas with s
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    When I think of Godel, the first thing I think of (based on accounts) is compulsion. He was really driven to explore the edges of reality using logic as a probe. Here's an account of his discovery of a logical flaw in the US Constituti
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    In the early XP days, we spoke about code's equipoise.
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    I agree that LOC is a lousy productivity measure but I think think it could be decent health measure. The distribution of method line counts looks like it's a power law. In code bases I've looked at there are way more methods with
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    > banking is more of a technology business than just about any other. They don't behave like Google or Facebook. Their DNA is not technical.
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    Banks aren't technology companies. Someday a technology company will become a bank.
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    Detecting Refactoring Diligence(michaelfeathers.silvrback.com)

    33 points by michaelfeathers 12y ago|4 comments
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    Indications of life on Mars have been found nearly as many times as Voyager has left the solar system.
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    by michaelfeathers 12y ago

    I hear that argument all the time and my response is: "Just because you have a right doesn't make it right."