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When this article was published on his altdev blog it had a big impact on how I wrote code. I really embraced pure functions and tried to think in terms of side effect free code an…

"an uneven worker" sums me up nicely.

As someone who worked with Delphi for many years I've often wondered if there is a lot of money to be made by charging companies to work on these codebases. As much as I liked Delp…

Also the compiler was lightening fast.

A significant amount of Delphi code I wrote 20+ years ago is still in the wild and still making a ton of money for a company I used to work for. I actually miss the days of Windows…

To me the two bits of code in the error handling case or not comparable. In the c++ case you would still handle the error in the if statement if it can be handled otherwise you wou…

There isn't many people who could hold my attention for 5 hours but John is one who can. Speaks so well about his craft.

As a someone living in the UK I find a lot of these comments by people in the US mind blowing. People calling CPS / police because they see kids playing alone in the park? What the…

True. I found this quote kind of sad "What I find is I'm able to be with them and still be on email. I can be with them and still be working at the same time ... If I didn't, I wou…

Didn't know he has 5 kids! I struggle with 1 full time job and 2 kids.

That's good to know. React Router is the only thing stopping me from updating to React 16. I can't find an NPM package, so assume you need to point it at Github?

I have to say this near perfectly mirrors my experience. We have a JS application [1] that is getting fairly large in size and development is moving quickly. Before we introduced R…

We are in the same position, except with backbone instead of spine. Nice idea for a use case of portals.

same here. Really good to see these types of updates going in along with the bigger things like fiber

According to the FAQ they will be shutting down the Stormpath API in 6 months. https://stormpath.com/oktaplusstormpath FAQ also says you will need to export your data from SP and, …