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well, laying off the most expensive part of SC + focusing looks like business is getting mature and practical, given the competition and turning from 'exciting new thing' into regu…

Well, folks it's mostly about calling syntax, as it is mentioned in the post, and it's more about ensuring that shooting in the foot is hard. However, given the change of codebase …

Indeed. But many broscience PhDs are quite big on creatine, I heard.

That intelligence-boosting powder that's the basis for super-findings of gym broscience?

This is very true, but Agile isn't the only un-achievable property in this case. Even basic healthy atmosphere and efficiency barely have a chance in these situations, so expecting…

Another kind of cult is religious adherence to methodology while ruining the very value the methodology is supposed to enhance. When you think something is stupid (like adopting on…

Obviously there would be many web apps which would benefit from being end-to-end and not loose a lot in usability compared to non e2e ones

I feel WebCrypto (strange architectural choices made by people whose priorities are availability of crypto, not consistency of security) is even more questionable than running SJCL…

The problem is not only permissions. The problem is that code execution model within anything a mile close to web and browsers is a security threat by itself.

In some fields, incremental enhancement isn't enough, and that, I believe, is what killed Firefox phones. They've shown that their excellent engineering allows to run better code o…

First class unsigned code in unsafe language support on a physical device seems to be a bit of a worrisome idea.

Explaining weird solutions with cute explanations is cute.

Having worked on SaaS products with high demands to security before, and having spent a serious chunk of people's hours on building security infrastructure around it, I'd say the b…

Git should have been written with pluggable hashes, right. Also, SHA1 could have been invented stronger against collisions in the first place. In the retrospect many decisions whic…

>If that's not the case, I don't see how they can make this claim. Nobody knew it was even available?

Apple engineers are not different from the rest of people - deliver first, fix when fails. Wiping tombstones in constantly-syncing environment is a cumbersome piece of engineering.…

The year people discover RDBMS are quick and reliable. Again.

Offsetting database layout decisions is not having better flexibility, it is having less clue about database layout, unfortunately. Collecting data in some form and re/de-normalizi…