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That is not what I’m saying at all though? The article is literally a defense of the existing system which allows those that own valuable assets to keep them and price them accordi…

Yeah fair point.

What's the alternative if not based on commercial activity? Lottery?

This post crops up enough and annoys me enough that I wrote a full response to it: https://floverfelt.org/posts/it-is-your-responsibility-to-re... It's pretty sad that we've reache…

Shameless plug, but I used mermaid.js to create a pom visualizer maven plugin [0] and it was honestly pretty great. Like some of the other comments say (and after working with it q…

If you've ever been dropped on a new or large Maven project or had to explain your Maven build to a new hire, you know how verbose and tricky to read the POM XMLs are. This plugin …

Yeah that's a good point. The randomness is introduced by the opposing player and is not intrinsic to the game itself. As opposed to Sudoku or something where there's only a single…

> cognitive science, linguistics, and anthropology. Would love to hear your thoughts on this, esp. the linguistics and anthropology piece.

Yeah, I'm actually a pretty big fan of Java programming. It gets a lot of hate on HN for things that have been mostly solved or can be solved if you implement it a certain way.

Exactly, it would've made total sense to pull it out into an interface in other situations, but simply felt like a preference here.

I feel like the responses to this comment are somewhat proving the point around most things being preference. ;)

Yep exactly! I think if you broaden the concept of "authority" beyond literal authoritative sources it gets even more murky. Are you appealing to the authority of speed? Compilatio…

Yeah it does. Software is basically a mental model and different people have different mental models of the world so we make up languages/practices/etc. that fit those models. The …

I did say that to be fair, I just omitted it from the post. The question was more of a jumping off point for my thoughts on the practices vs. preferences question.

Yeah, I told him that, but by and large most developers don't work on those problems.

Right, but your definition of discernment is itself a preference for readability over conciseness. Another developer could say "if it works a month or a year later, then you're pra…

Yup, I 100% agree. The point of the post wasn't to bemoan practices, more just that it's frustrating to be told repeatedly that a certain thing is a "best practice" when really it'…

100% that's true! I'm not saying developers having preferences and everybody abiding by them is a bad thing, more just that a lot of what constitutes "best practices" are often pre…