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It seems you keep your corpse related conversation mostly to email: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=mikekchar%20corpse&sort=byPopu... As someone who's quirked the odd sceptical eyebr…

Is it just pedantry? Even in the strongliest of practical strongly typed languages, two functions with the same signatures might fail to return on some inputs in the new version th…

You may also want to look into the Saga pattern - I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDuwrtwYHu8 to be a handy high level overview for applying it to microservices. Although p…

Earnestly: Yes. But there may well be programming tasks or jobs that they are suited to, for which no understanding of boolean logic will make no difference on a day to day basis.

What's the scrum manifesto?

Thank you for the clarification.

> a practically-attainable real-world solution. I can't be understanding this correctly. Please expand, I fear otherwise this is going to be at the back of my mind all day.

That's delightful, thank you for posting it!

Thank you both for the link and the google-fu tip.

Do you have a citation for that first claim? It fits my prejudices so neatly that I'd like to see the proof. I've tried to google a little for it with no success, so my apologies f…

> And frankly, if you can't point to bugs or performance issues, it's likely you don't need to be refactoring in the first place! I feel this is a lack of clarity around the word r…

At least one blogger preferred Googles assistant because she was ordering around an impersonal un-gendered corporation rather than what felt like an individual. That said, this doe…

> language is designed for communication between humans. Unlike machines, humans do not always just want to exchange factual information about the world, and often use communicatio…

I'm afraid I'm missing the point too. Would you mind finding another way to make it? If the core point of the essay is to cut the YAGNI and just get something shipped, aren't gamej…

So what is the distinction? I mean that as a genuine question - Vidarh's position seems to be that the death penalty is intentionally taking a life, and shouldn't have a different …

Interesting! My team in HCOM is all Scala, but more generally here and in our upstreams it is still quite niche. Are you based in the UK? It would be interesting to compare notes. …

Does anyone know what they mean by `Instead, use applicative transactions.`?

I've wondered about building an AI tournament for Avalon before, as my feel from playing and discussing it is that success in the game is strictly dominated by social strategy. It …

Have you had any feedback from colleagues that have found that useful?

> Yes, code review is an invaluable part of the git history. It explains why you made the decisions you made. This is interesting - even places I've worked that have cared about co…

That's fine in theory, but it's not a universal heuristic, and even then, different smart well-intentioned people independently applying it won't necessarily come to the same resul…

Having conversations about what the system being architected/designed/planned is going to do can be very useful. There are definitely better techniques than waiting until someone q…

The "See what it does" slideshow's totally broken for me - what does it actually do?

It's no longer correct that it uses MySQL - it's still not using BigTable, and in fact an RDBMS seems to have been implemented instead. That would appear to still support his rant?…

This is a reasonable, common quibble when starting property based testing. A failing test should be straightforward to turn into a simple checked example - most good libraries have…