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Is it a good idea to base your GraphQL schema on your database schema? Isn't the point of GraphQL to decouple your interface (who should not break) from your backend implementation…

Allen Wirfs-Brock summarizes it perfectly: https://twitter.com/awbjs/status/1107678004757430272

I don't see those quotes as contradicting Kay's point about data. My interpretation of what Torvalds and Pike are saying is that we should spend time designing our programs to find…

Aren't we lucky to have stumbled upon the "correct tool for the job" at our first attempt.

If "age" is an important property in your system shared among different kinds of entities then you need to have an Interface or a Protocol to retrieve the age of an entity. The sam…

I don't see the difference between sending a Person instance and sending a map of keywords about a person. The coupling is the same.

I think Rich is talking more about data structures than data abstractions here. In particular, he's saying that he favors sound data models (RDF, datalog, relational) to manipulate…

Other things that occur both naturally and in simulations: revenge, jealousy, violence, territoriality, oligarchy, thumb sucking...

The author is obviously more interested in telling entertaining stories (in the boardroom) than telling the truth. Tufte is not only about data viz. and powerpoint bashing. Integri…

I had the exact same reaction. It is unfortunate Chris didn't take time to respond to your comment... It is always interesting to see different object systems being used. I just ho…

That's effectively unfortunate to compare your design to OOP because we tend to have different opinions of what OOP is. If you see OOP simply as message passing and polymorphism th…

What would be very interesting to talk about (instead of entering into the details of an innocent analogy) is a toolkit that would make very easy to create new higher level languag…

How complex would it be to execute a javascript function callback against each published document on the hub instead of a query and return the document to the subscriber if the fun…