thewoolleyman

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by thewoolleyman 4y ago
Artificial Intelligence is causing us to revisit the difference between free as in beer and free as in speech ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre ). It is putting a new spin on some traditional Open Sourc
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by thewoolleyman 4y ago
Best of luck with Zed, Nathan! I've always been impressed with your brilliance, vision, hope, and positivity. Hope we can catch up again soon, until then keep changing the world for the better!
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by thewoolleyman 5y ago
TL;DR: It is a JAMStack-style static site, which we publish with the Middleman static site editor. However, there's a lot more to it than that, and it's always actively evolving. There's not currently a page which summarizes
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by thewoolleyman 8y ago
Most things that are Good in the world of computing can be boiled down to: Loose Coupling and High Cohesion At all levels, macro and micro. It applies at the function level and to global distributed systems. For example, each of the letters
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by thewoolleyman 9y ago
Having done TDD mostly full-time for well over a decade, I have to agree, and it hits home with some past experiences. You can end up with fully tested, TDD'd code, that is not well-designed - i.e. unnecessarily coupled, and not cohesi
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by thewoolleyman 10y ago
Good article. I think there's a shortage, and I also think technology overload and the ever-increasing rate of innovation and change prevents many junior programmers from really learning agile fundamentals well. There's just too
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Npm shrinkwrap hell(github.com)
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by thewoolleyman 11y ago
> I'm just in the process of cutting a clients hosting costs by about 80% by ditching AWS for a setup on managed servers... And what are the additional long-term development/sysadmin costs of having to manage those servers and
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by thewoolleyman 12y ago
[edit: I've been at Pivotal Labs since '06, not '96. In '96 I was at IBM Global Services.]
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by thewoolleyman 12y ago
Things are not always as they seem. The goals of this (Pivotal Labs') office layout and the company values are actually contrary to what you might assume. In fact, they have evolved to help avoid and weed out the type of employees whi