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by twerquie 13y ago
The problem with the novel authorship metaphor is that it's too close to the literal act of authoring software to be useful. The terms involved in the metaphor (author, editor, publisher, composition, rewrites, etc) all have more specific l
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by twerquie 13y ago
Amen, a thousand times.
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by twerquie 13y ago
Of course, we all do this. The the perfect form exists in all of our minds, even the novice, and we keep this with us as we work. However, the author of the article is advocating reckless behaviour and poor judgement in pursuit of actually
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by twerquie 13y ago
> A destructive pursuit of perfection > * Preference for dismissal over compromise > * Contempt for delivery dates This one is so completely backwards it makes me wonder if it is somehow tongue-in-cheek. The best programmers are
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by twerquie 14y ago
Yes
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Though there is no such thing as a neutral source, http://www.nytimes.com/
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by twerquie 14y ago
> very inconvenient to read ... sitting there and doing nothing is not worth my time For me, you helped illustrate the value of the comic.
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by twerquie 14y ago
Does anyone else feel like the pendulum is swinging too far in the opposite direction? We're over-compensating here.
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by twerquie 14y ago
It all comes down to testability. In statically typed languages like C# and Java, it's very hard to test a class in isolation without abstracting hard links between classes, segregating interfaces, inverting dependencies and so on. You can
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by twerquie 14y ago
And that's just one commit message!
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Cool story bro
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by twerquie 14y ago
It costs roughly the same amount ($50 for an individual, $100 for a company) to purchase a developer license that can submit apps to the Windows 8 Store. Furthermore, the Windows Store also has restrictive terms on what is acceptable, and d
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by twerquie 14y ago
Screen readers have no problem reading javascript-rendered content. A corporate environment that disables javascript may as well block port 80 as well. I agree with others who point out that js is as vital as html and css to rendering a pag
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by twerquie 14y ago
That's fascinating. Goes to show that decontextualization is the ultimate disarming of a slur. Abstaining from the word completely leaves it loaded with hateful power.
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by twerquie 14y ago
It's not pretty, but nothing comes anywhere close to the functionality of PgAdmin. I think it supports nearly every feature of the database, which is impressive.
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Especially when you tell him it's the same bug.
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by twerquie 14y ago
Trends are trends. ACID-compliant databases will always have their place.
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by twerquie 14y ago
MySQL is to Postgres today as mSQL was to MySQL in 1998; more popular yet technologically inferior. In another 15 years, we will be having the same arguments about PostgreSQL and the thing that comes to replace it, whatever that may be. MyS
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by twerquie 14y ago
> PostgreSQL is pedantic with data insertion Better to deal with the exceptions up-front, than to discover months down the line that your database has been silently chopping long strings, silently casting types and coercing values into
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by twerquie 14y ago
"Not MySQL" is good advice. Look into alternatives, there are many good ones.
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by twerquie 14y ago
He's clearly talking about people new to databases who choose MySQL because of its ubiquity, not seasoned engineers and large companies operating legacy applications. > Facebook ? Twitter ? Amazon ? Flickr ? I imagine none of these comp
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by twerquie 14y ago
There is always a single point of failure if you zoom out far enough.
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by twerquie 14y ago
It's relevant because he likely wouldn't have been signed and promoted in the recording industry of yesteryear.
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by twerquie 14y ago
Don't "throw away" your type information, preserve it in unit tests (which are typically far easier to write in a dynamically typed language).
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by twerquie 14y ago
Philosophies only become extreme when you apply them extremely.
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by twerquie 14y ago
Not only that, but modern digital recordings often digitally add a track of tape hiss to warm up the sound. I don't mean a distortion plugin or anything, I mean a recording of a 2" tape machine playing nothing but hiss! That being said, I a
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by twerquie 14y ago
No, but they usually playback tape hiss.
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I suppose that's why all those "Remasters" came out in the late 90s. ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-Sade/dp/B00005AWMF )
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by twerquie 14y ago
> It's not enough to read method signatures. There are no explicit interfaces. Only implicit ones you devine by understanding the full breadth and scope of how parameter A is used in method B, all the way down the stack trace. Unit test
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by twerquie 14y ago
Good point, I removed the nested CONCATs for clarity. Thanks!

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