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by spronkey 12y ago
Oh god, this, 100000000x this! My main frustration is the lack of canonical implementations - there never seems to be a good way to do anything - everything has nasty tradeoffs, so you have to pick the best for each situation - which resu
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by spronkey 12y ago
Well, not quite. Instead of one good option you now have two less good ones. Not exactly a win.
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by spronkey 12y ago
My theory on why it's such a difficult problem to understand is that it's too easy to get caught up in the real world problem, when this isn't actually a real world problem. In the "real world" problem there are add
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by spronkey 12y ago
This. However, the alternative scenarios aren't the "Monty Hall Problem" - - the host will never open/blast a car door. I usually find this problem annoying, not because it's all that difficult, in fact it's qu
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by spronkey 12y ago
I think there's a difference between standards at the language level and standards in library code. There's also the point of simplicity at which it actually doesn't matter how something is accomplished, only that it is ,
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by spronkey 12y ago
indeed. Pretty sure there's some cognitive load involved for developers who come onto a team who uses a style that's different to what that developer is used to. Languages with strict style standards remove this problem.
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by spronkey 14y ago
I'm astounded at the number of "$60k hires a good sysadmin and some EC2 resources" comments. You guys clearly don't understand exactly what Heroku (or a similar service) offers - providing it works. There's a concept called a Bus Factor. Ba