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The readability should be compared to alternative ways to solve the same problem. Sure, regexes are not the most intuitive syntax, but it is compact and declarative. What is the al…

Doesn’t sound very hippie to assume by default , without knowing anything about the issue, that the big corporations are in the right.

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What is json-esque SQL?

Because we call someone using a programming language a programmer. But certainly many professionals who arent full-time programmers write Excel formulas or queries. The intention o…

This article is not about null but about NaN, a special case floating-point value which is the result of diving by zero.

> So what we have is writings written hundreds of years later documenting an event with no earlier writings verifying that documentation. Unfortunately, this is the case for much o…

Try applying the same criteria to say the battle of Thermopylae. What does the Persian sources say?

As far as I know we have no Persian sources for the batte of Thermopylæ. Historians also agree that Xerxes couldnt possibly have had a million man strong army. Does this mean the w…

How so? Are the Greek the sea people then?

We dont know that.

Whould would you have preferred?

The point of art (like music and litterature) is the art itself. Code is a craft, it is means to an end. It can still be beautiful and impressive and creative, but it is a differen…

Best solution: Learn SQL and understand the relational model. Learn data modelling and normalization. Then choose a good ORM which does not get in the way, but saves a bunch of boi…

Ah, that sounds like a classic mistake - rewriting a system from scratch without fully understanding what the system actually does.

Are you referring to some particular projects, or to the early stages of every project?

The article refers to the astronomical calendar, which is differnent from the gregorian by having a year 0, which makes calculations simpler. After year 1 the years have the same n…

YAGNI is not about things you know you need, because then you wouldn’t write any code ever.

How so?

Stalk their children? What policy are you referring to?

Very charitable to call it a “grey zone” to stalk and dox children of politicians you dislike.

Usually it is not a secret, but currently the prime minister and her family live at a secret address.

Probably, but note that cross-domain GET-requests have been supported since the beginning of the web, since this is literally how links works. So while a badly implemented GET hand…

Depends. If the abstraction is just a level of indirection, then it is usually pretty simple to eliminate - just hit “inline function” in the refactoring tool a few times. On the o…