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Care to elaborate on what would make C# a bad language?

I remember being mocked slightly when I was headbangin' and footstompin' to the soundtrack.

That’s not called “deleting old code”. This is now “breaking backwards compatibility”.

So you're not welcoming guests with Android phones? Will you be placing their mobile phones in a Faraday cage? Or will not not be visiting anyone who has a Homepod/Echo at home?

> The Law of Leaky Abstractions is a lie; abstract airtightly This one... Our entire computing world is a pie of terrible abstractions held together by duct-tape and billions of ma…

> ...the better your code style, guidelines, linting, infrastructure, error reporting and tests Doesn't TypeScript kind of solves (at least partially) those issues?

Keeping track is one thing. Actually _running_ the Lernaean Hydra of an application in production is a whole another story. The amount of "housekeeping" you have to do to keep the …

You can experience the same, if not worse, levels of pain and suffering with a monolithic application designed by the same Enterprise Architects.

This is some Java-level explicitness. Maybe, drop the `_seconds` suffix and replace it with something like `retry_window_after_first_call = '60s'`?

Not to undermine author’s efforts, but I feel we as an industry took a wrong turn somewhere. An entire book on what essentially is a single Git command is just insane.

> ...weird design choices (e.g. branching is bad) What bothers you in particular?

> There's nothing wrong with having zillions of them... There's nothing wrong until something goes wrong an now you're royally screwed. With zillion dependencies you are at a mercy…

The whole "...we don’t want duplicated subscriber lists" is a very arbitrary requirement. What's more, all this could have been avoided if a proper relational database structure (n…

I've been using HJSON lately and it's been a joy.

The patented "Shlemiel the painter’s algorithm" [1]. 1: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/11/back-to-basics/

How could foreign keys ever be a "hassle"?

The legalese is astonishing: ...in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, and intending to be legally bound hereby, Parent, Merger…

If by "designed" you mean "picking a content-addressable DAG as an underlying data structure", then yes, it is really beautiful. If you mean "provide a sane level of abstraction ov…

And nothing from Apple yet, right? Apparently, engineers are hard at work releasing a fix, so there should be known workarounds. Or at least it’s known to them what is actually cau…

NewHash is a terrible name - on par with Xbox One [X] and iPad New. Googling stuff will be hard, and good luck explaining to less technical-savvy users what is this all about. Plus…

Check out http://www.craftinginterpreters.com for something more in-depth.

Where are all the unit/integration tests for the APIs that this damned button is calling? Hindsight being 20/20, but I cannot imagine not asserting that a newly created/re-enabled …

Immediately after you are tasked to maintain said overly-clever and overly-terse code.

> ...every single quote... And then you come across \u0027 and you're screwed.