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This is not necessarily about the code, but I've been really impressed for a while by the lodash project and its maintainer's dedication to constantly keep the number of open issue…

In my experience, knowing when work on some functionality will _start_ plus a rough estimate on effort (talking hours/days/weeks level) is quite acceptable for most stakeholders. I…

it('sends an email to the user', ...)

One I've been looking forward to for a while: native notifications on OSX!

Vendor lock-in.

Please don't fall into the Dunning-Kruger[0] trap by assuming a straightforward task is also easy to perform. These things may very well be complex and include aspects that are not…

Feature-wise it's great but the .com version can be really slow. A simple git push of a few small commits took me about 50 seconds earlier this week.

> It's super powerful because word dropping cost nothing to produce and cost a lot to dismiss with proper arguments. Sounds like you may be referring to the Bullshit Asymmetry Pric…

This also reminds me of a talk by Maxim Februari at the most recent TEDx Amsterdam[0]. From the description: The infrastructure of connected things [..] imposes norms on citizens. …

Git only started really clicking with me when I started thinking of most of my actions as graph building and traversals. It also helps to realize that for most intents and purposes…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws Which contains (apart from the obvious Murphy's law and Occam's razor) such pearls as the Peter Principle, the Dunning-Kruger e…

Not specifically about this prediction, but he touched on the uncertainty factor in the latest Model Talk podcast episode: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-uncertainty-…

That one and the Christmas Special were the two episodes that kept me up at night.

What also floats on water?

To me this is a form of the Dunning-Kruger effect[0], where only somewhat informed people estimate the cost of a "0.1" (or POC) release without considering the famous "unknown unkn…

While luck isn't something you can completely control, it doesn't have to be entirely random either. I read this article a while back talking about a "luck surface area"[0], which …

I would love to see a general purpose API client that works similar to the Elasticsearch client Sense [0]. A simple, free-text scratchpad style client that allows for easy editing …

> The PostststgreSQL project never fails to impress me. Let's see how many iterations we'll need for people to actually notice what was pointed out here ;)

Love that podcast. Really a shame he's stepping down from it.

Try writing YAML in combination with templating (such as in Salt). Because indentation means hierarchy, it's terrible. I'd much rather use JSON in such a context.

Yes. This is one of the main reasons I like to do most of my writing (which, admittedly, is not a whole lot) with Markdown.

I am from the Netherlands. Euthanasia is legal here, although strictly regulated (as I think it should be by the way, this is not the sort of choice that should be taken or approve…

I stand corrected.

Or he may have been diagnosed one or more years ago.

From personal experience, I can very much relate to and agree with this piece. My father went through a similar process: cancer (melanoma) – two years of treatment and coming to te…