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If writing code paid no better than flipping burgers, I would still do it, because I enjoy efficiently solving challenging algorithm problems. I don't enjoy failing to solve them b…

I thought it was till, plant, harvest, and in between you just wait for nature to take its course. Do they have occasion to patrol a field with tractors more often than that?

There's nothing especially awful about left-pad being its own package, the disaster was because a huge number of developers were betting on npm to somehow be highly available (desp…

Unless they somehow withdrew money from it, it can only be underfunded because it was always underfunded.

Why nitrogen? Is air too corrosive?

>The thing is, one can write memory safe code in C. One can generate safe C code. We have ample evidence that a human being can't sit down and write it.

For every car I ever owned before this year, they recommended an oil change every 3,000 miles (a little more than two months for me) or at most three months. I don't know if they g…

I think that's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercharger#Twincharging because they're investing engine power (via the alternator) as well as otherwise-wasted power from the exhaus…

Anonymous strangers successfully handled the crowdfunding: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/09/fans-...

> I have asked every person who has turned me down what I could do better. I wouldn't say anything either. There's no upside. Why risk giving any kind of ammo to someone with a gri…

If they aren't qualified to design with least privilege, what are they qualified for, beyond maybe cat videos?

There's an alarming list of behavior MySQL got negligently wrong at some point. That code is mostly still present (you can't prevent a client from enabling it!) and I have to assum…

This. You don't want to reimplement all your validation in each of your applications (plural!), and you're in for a nasty surprise if you think your entire organization has only on…

There's a strange theory that banks and brokers had to be forced to reluctantly write bad loans, when in fact they were desperate to write more once they had a way to dump the risk…

Not only to avoid enforcement, but also because some customers will only select products where a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_source is also selling them.

There's a huge difference between not conceiving people and eliminating the ones already here.

> who would pass up a private car ride from San Francisco to Palo Alto for $45 when a taxi would cost $125? A SF taxi charges double the meter for a ride to Palo Alto because witho…

Unfortunately this means you wrote several copies of essentially the same code but with minor differences, and if you find and fix a bug in one the others are still wrong.

If your monitoring can't handle your what system is doing, aggregate locally until it can. Having systematically incorrect stats (because loss is correlated with load) is worse tha…

Eich wasn't ignorant of history, he just had marching orders to deliver something that resembled Java for marketing reasons, and only a week to finish or be displaced by something …

If you're building in cement, you need to know the cement is strong enough. If you're building in tofu, choosing extra firm over silken isn't really going to help.

It's just like Fortran, where everything including a constant is passed by reference, so if you assign to your arguments you might corrupt your program's only copy of 7 unless the …

The problem isn't the audience, it's every employer he'll ever have.

In Java, an exception outside a catch block automatically stops the method and raises the exception to the caller, and then their caller, and so on. In Go you have to write this af…

In Go, if you call three functions you need to repeat the x, err := do_something() if err != nil { return nil, err } ceremony three times. In Java it happens by default, because th…