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Or, like one of the companies I worked for, you could exercise your options, wait for a large Fortune 500 to buy them up, but then get told that your bylaws have a special provisio…

Re: jruby I have considered it deeply. Many of our enterprise systems are Java-based, so JRuby's ability to call Java methods directly without implanting services would be a huge p…

Rubygems forms an ecosystem of libraries on top of Ruby. Most gems are dev/tested within MRI, some work across other Rubies, some do not. It's difficult to tell which is which. Thi…

The Ruby community is always likely to prefer MRI because that's the core that the majority of gems support. So, yes, on the surface of it, this particular Ruby build might appeal …

Doesn't seem to stand for anything (at least it's not defined in the project charter). If I had to guess at it: Open Meta-Runtime But I could see how that might be misinterpreted c…

There is no Balance and no Art. Consider part of the reason work takes so long is the constant stream of updates. Updates have killed more than one conference presentation. Yet, wh…

I think the term stems from hearing two of these people interact at work: "what, are you guys married or something?" "Nah, he's just my work wife".

Yes, but the software may be based on symbolic reasoning, in which case the computer can 'use' a description of process symbolically and unexhaustively just as a human would. For e…

I liked DarkBasic: https://www.thegamecreators.com/product/dark-basic-pro-open-... Unlike other environments where everything is an integration with yet another library or tool cha…

In my mind, refactoring public policy is going to be like refactoring business processes in enterprise code. The perception is that all these "horrible" duplications and inefficien…

Because math. <3

Are you saying the process that creates risk is ending or that we are simply hitting a boundary condition (i.e. The edge of the Petri dish)? TFR is synthetic based on population be…

It's also interesting that the pair vs TDD divide is often based on the solution space. Service/backend programmers often extol TDD because it is easy when working in a single lang…

That's a bit rough. I think you are missing the other value proposition for SO: in a world of poorly documented interfaces, it gives cogent, vetted examples of what works. And you …

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was: 'Oh no, not again.'" [edit: ok, so it is cool, but I'm not sure it's secure, an…

I can sympathize, and there are areas of computing that are tiresome and never seem to get better, but there are just way too many things on my bucket list: unbiased rendering, phy…

Oh, I just realized that 'tagging' in this way is kind of an implementation of Minsky's k-lines. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-line_(artificial_intellige... Cool!

But TFA isn't talking about 'the future', it's talking about the present. Why isn't there productive work for these people right now ?

Except you describe the kinds of problems you typically solve (placing a button in a row) which are the smallest/simplest case of the problems that we're talking about, so it seems…

Must be a server-side dev. Java client-side trainwrecks include: struts, tempest, Java Server Faces, AWT, Swing. True it's unfair to blame Java alone for these, because client side…

I was initially confused by the "human" line too, but once I looked at the video and the examples I understood what you guys are trying to do. There are a lot of really interesting…

Software componentization never took off because every attempt at it either leaks abstractions like a sieve or is so purely functional as to be impractical for real world use. Shal…

React is a lot more than it seems. The essential problem it tries to solve is componentization: how can you have a large team of varying skill work on separate parts of a page in a…