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How about HTML, the programming language, 's Flying Circus with a very powerful yet flexible and optional type hinting system?

One of the things I learned in the classical music world is that the things we ask people to do in auditions–play the hardest parts of all the most difficult orchestral music witho…

This is a definite risk if you haven't planned for it and got buy-in. But it's a risk that's also fine with me: I don't want to support and develop shitty prototypes that I've whip…

To be clear, I am not suggesting that the resulting code will be good. But it tends to be more basic and not rely on weird tricks that deeper knowledge of the language will allow y…

I'm confused by your example. Sounds like someone who knows (or thinks they know) a language well writing code that is "good enough for now" and causing problems down the road?

Agree about pyenv. It's the best solution by far. Don't leave /home without it.

The time consuming aspects of new product dev are normally not around the time it takes to write the code. It's translating product requirements into solvable problems, logic flows…

One technique I've used as a team lead to limit tech debt that makes it into production is to have devs write prototypes in a different language than what we actually support in pr…

I will never again work in a company with a dual CEO/CTO. No matter how well-intentioned and talented that person is, it always leads to a toxic environment. It's an instant red fl…

How the fuck this is at the top of the front page when it's a clown running a clownshow and talking about costs is totally beyond me. I think we've reached peak HN. If you see a sh…

That's not how green/blue deployments work. You don't keep both colors up unless you have completely failed to understand the concept. Green/Blue is all about saving resources and …

No. That is not even close to being true. You're confusing None with NULL, like everyone else. Only a very few programming languages make this error. NULL is undefined. It can't be…

Null isn't empty set.

I am so completely unsurprised that people who don't understand the concept of undefined are telling me that it's actually defined.

If you were my customer, I would fire you.

I love critiques of SQL about implementations of NULL. "NULL is so special that it's not equal to anything, not even itself!" Like, duh. WTF should NULL be equal to? Anytime I see …

Thank you.

Yes. Every time I've tried to do it has been possible without Poetry. I have no idea what you've messed up in your own work, but I would hazard a guess that it's almost everything …

This is true, and I don't object to this description. Like I said, I'm a grumpy old man.

I'm going to sound like a very grumpy old man—because that's what I am—but if you actually need a tool like poetry, you've really fucked up. I have a ton of respect for the author.…

Yeah, that seems off to me too. I don't know of anyone who just goes straight to prod in that way, and I wouldn't take them seriously if they did.

If this economic downturn helps put extortionist companies like Yelp out of business, bring it. The companies that survive or resurrect will be better off without them. That's the …

I despise Uber as a company, but I've always loved them as a technology group ever since I used to go to their meetups in NYC. You can always count on Uber to throw a great party a…

I don't know enough about bloom filters or the math involved to say whether or not you are correct. But what you're saying sounds a lot like many proponents of various flavors of N…

I didn't say that any of this was simple or non-trivial. Again, it depends on your priorities and your values as well as your company culture. In fact, I specifically said that tes…