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From what I've seen, the people who complain about go's design are people who are more concerned about the ways in which it is not correct (by some definition) and less concerned a…

One might argue that if "Spring is such a complex framework" you never should have been using it in the first place?

I'm always confused by these sorts of posts because they happen often so there is clearly a problem but for some reason I've never had much of an issue. I've been using and develop…

If an entity makes profit off the back of my labour without compensation a reasonable case could be made that harm has been done to me. Or at least a labourer may legitimately clai…

Disclaimer: I'm the author of gabbi. It's great to see more and more API testing tools that use a format intending to be readable. I personally think YAML is a bit more readable fo…

Wow, I completely disagree. What I've read of hers the writing has been great. Tight. No waste. But still very evocative.

Agree. I wasn't at all convinced by the examples showing the Echo was somehow better than using the "built in" signatures, especially since there's quite a bit of handling that Ech…

Consider https://zuul-ci.org/ , perhaps?

Yeah, have to wonder how this wasn't already completely obvious. I mean, sure, it's great that it's got an official science stamp on it, but really big duh here.

Anybody else get bummed out that many times that we create a lightweight thing to compensate for something overcooked (like XML) the new thing eventually ends up overcooked in much…

Sure, can't dispute what you say. There has to be some amount of "you must be this high to ride this ride" but you don't need to measure 7 times or whatever before thinking the fir…

These sorts of interviews do not find good software developers, they simply remove a certain kind of bad (not really) software developers along with a whole host of very good softw…

Good. I recently told my local honda dealer I wouldn't be buying another of any car because of touchscreens exactly because of the need to look and lack of tactile interaction. Cle…

Yeah, there is a very strong critique of the way in which neighbors on Anarres can effectively be tyrants. Le Guin is masterful at letting no one and no thing off the hook. No char…

In my experience, if you find that you're unable to do TDD with a problem you're trying to solve, then you've probably not decomposed the problem enough. In your mind. Step back. T…

Aligns with my experience. Which, of course, is only one person's experience amongst many, and different people will have different experiences. For people like me, however, the pr…

Huh. I'd say work on "human-computer interfaces" is one of the pinnacles of social activism and always a highly politicised endeavour. The Media Lab has always had (in my fairly lo…

A thing to keep in mind is that work (at least as it is commonly practised) is not "normal". It's a thing we have accepted as normal, and if you want to be successful (by the commo…

+many to number 4. A super abundance of unit tests (especially if they use mocks) gives a false sense of security at the cost of high barriers to refactoring. Where's the win?

Yeah, same reaction. There's nothing new in these observations. The ringfencing between OpenReach and the rest of BT has been present for quite a while. It has kept the lawyers and…

I'll think you'll find that Robert B. Reich's expertise extends a bit further than "reporting".

a) I (the author) am making reference to the impact of bouncers with IRC in OpenStack projects. The error, if there is one, is perhaps that both my posting and the one I reference …