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Good points well made. I hope I'll be able to prioritise trying Nix at some point.

Not trampling, just holding at arms length. Recognising the reality of the economics of most projects. Unless you live in a completely deterministic world, devoid of human fallibil…

yes, could easily have been the latter

hmm, yes, this was always going to be a contentious point, and highly subjective. I think the main issue here is it was in a large part also a very human impact, which is much hard…

Regarding Gazelle, yes, the CI would break early if it detected a none porcelain repo after running Gazelle itself. I think others may have configured their editors, but for me the…

To give a tool a fair chance I think it has to be used daily to really grok the pleasure / pain. We were aware of some of the problems, but perhaps overly confident about managing …

Spot on.

Also as you work with Python, you may want to look at the link between Basil Fawlty and your chosen language :)

I probably should have made the context clearer earlier in the post - later on I mention : "To set the scene, our codebase is mainly Go, including vendor directories, and a conside…

Glad it can help show you some of the pitfalls, though I'm not sure how well our experience extrapolates to a primarily python codebase. I have added a link to the classic scene as…

hahah. oops.

Totally agree with distancing from Reddit. I would contribute to a federated non-repudiable system. Moderation can be just as auditable. (Perhaps with some emergency actions that t…

And this : http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing... replacing Sawzall with Golang :|

Fair point, just differing levels of hoops to jump through, or general expectations of best practice. In that sense I would say Java and C# do not allow you to 'ignore' exceptions.…

I would tend to agree, based on instinct, that Go is poor for data science work (as it happens I am about to find out for real in the coming weeks :| ). To build systems to feed da…

The irony in all of these comments is that they almost all fall back to, or start with, discussing language design, and on the whole ignore the tools and processes that have a cons…

Thank you, and may I say what a well written comment. Poor old Tony Hoare (algol was mentioned earlier (rightly) as an exemplar of innovation) but Null in a safe memory managed con…

I'm no language historian, but I did limit my timeframe to my personal experience of 36 years of development for a reason. There was necessarily incredible research in the 20 years…

Yes I think golang hits a sweet spot here, and I do truly think it is the 'other things' that win in whole lifecycle practice.

wow locust.io - looks great, thanks, I'm surprised I missed that. I'm becoming more and more of a fan of code over configuration. I'll definitely give that a go

possibly using http://tip.golang.org/pkg/net/http/httptest and a bit of workflow management - would not be too hard

Wow, my bad! Thanks for pointing that out. If you scale my numbers up that would be costing you $60,000 per month. If you are doing recommendations you are probably processing sign…