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> realistically a proprietary standard library – however huge – just can't compete with the open source ecosystems of Python and friends. It's not competing with Python, it's langu…

"Imagine you've implemented world peace. Now let's try to drop couple of nukes in the middle of this..." Anyway, the point of functional programming is to have as many "immovable p…

Well, there are non-ironic alternatives: declare(strict_typehints=TRUE); // not ironic, not short declare(strict_types=1); // ironic, short declare(strict=true); // not ironic, eve…

I'm curious, is there a reason to avoid using .NET for web services deployed on *nix? I'm interested in using it, I love .NET as a platform, I just have this vague sense of worry t…

With RoR it's pretty much in the description. Monolithic web apps with relatively standard and simple domain logic (i.e. CRUD). Lots of presentation code (HTML templates, handling …

This is not a change in Apple's policies, it's a fluke. The reviewer is interpreting the rule incorrectly. The rule is intended to avoid descriptions which refer to future plans fo…

Odd. RoR and Go address entirely different app domains. The only thing that connects them is that RoR was trendy yesterday, and Go is trendy today. If this is the rationale for rep…

One'd hope that the "values of modern society" have enough capacity to accommodate both ambition and relationships. Painting ambition in negative tone and putting too much focus on…

Thanks, this was informative :)

What's your opinion on "popular frameworks".

> Well human have higher moral value because of higher ability of pain, emotions and cognition. Those are arbitrary categories. Let's say I decide you have lower ability to feel pa…

You have a somewhat naive view about how our moral compass moves as a straight lines from bad to good. Before the Nazis performed experiments on humans, it was considered horrible …

The statelessness relates to communication state. A client can hold state and it most certainly will hold state (consider your browser: open tabs with URLs, bookmarks, local browse…

I'm afraid we're not in a dramatic agreement. You point to an exception which REST allows to claim the exception is RESTful. The exception is there for practical reasons and it doe…

I know which phrase you're referring to, but if you read it in context, it's apparent this is an exception case, because the very same section talks about cacheable, stateless requ…

My premise is that HTTPs-only and REST have opposing constraints. You have not demonstrated any flaws in it, REST says communication is stateless and cacheable except for acknowled…

Let's quote from section 5.2.2: "All REST interactions are stateless. That is, each request contains all of the information necessary for a connector to understand the request, ind…

"HTTPS-only" goes directly against the architectural principles laid out in "REST", where intermediaries should be able to understand (in a limited sense) the request and responses…

I'm talking about map(), and you're talking about filter(). Here's the code in question: .map(function(album){ return {artist : album("vendor")("name")} }) If this is simply adding…

It can't work them out because you compose the query in a third party scripting language. RethinkDB has no access to the structure of the source in order to analyze it statically a…

> Not earth-shattering, but with ReQL all I need to do is attach a function Thing is, some SQL databases have columnar storage, and in there selecting everything, then filtering wi…

My apps are service-oriented, and every service is in a different language. And for every one of them I and my team ask ourselves "why". The only one framing the debate so negative…

If I'm asked why I use the technologies I use in my projects, I'd gladly give specific engineering and business reasons, and not just say "YouTube uses it". We should be ready to h…