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As an old-time Amiga user, I was pleased to read that Vim first appeared on the Amiga.

Interesting that he may have had some positive things to say in a 2017 blog post, but has now been deleted? https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful-in-a-job-rem... ChatGPT …

You should believe them and others on here. Atom is slow. No way around it. If you or others say that it's fine, then you're suffering from Stockholm syndrome, having been taken in…

Give $563M to Accenture and you get some really shoddy work http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/accenture-snags-new-5-yea...

That's a lot of "copy and paste 'programming'".

Please don't say Linux.

You're correct when you say about YAGNI not necessarily leading to "elegant, short, and easy to maintain code". That is, in the end, up to the developer's skill.

Design Patterns are one of the biggest culprits in large, over-engineered patterns. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3341-pattern-vision

YAGNI is not about being lazy, it's about being smart about the code being written, about the craft. Over-engineering, architecture astronauts, hurt a system a lot more than someon…

If you hang out on github, and do your social coding over there (or simply prefer git over Mercurial), here is a github fork of the repository: https://github.com/dbarros/dapper-do…

A Java developer complaining about Ruby's supposed verbosity? What's the world coming to?! When one looks at Java code, 90% of it is just syntactic sugar, which doesn't add much to…

If a job posting to work at a Pixar server farm is anything to go by, they actually use Linux for their films.

I wouldn't count on any predictions made by Gates. He said that the spam problem would be solved. And that was meant to happen some 5 years ago.