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Namespaces are horrible in Python because the Python XML libraries are deficient. They're generally fine in e.g. Java. (Unless you're trying to represent QName typed data, but that…

Kubernetes used to be hard to set up from scratch. Recently we had to set up a new cluster and it just worked with very little faff.

I can read Scala fine but I'd like fast compilation and good IDE support.

The tests are ineffective. That's because, as the article notes, unit tests - tests of single functions, with dependencies mocked - give very little confidence that code actually w…

We have a new guy at work who loves unit tests. Yammers about them constantly. If he's working on a feature that needs changes to classes A, B and C then his workflow is: make all …

My company tried using Swarm 2-3 years ago and ran into the problem that it didn't actually work. Containers would just go missing from the network. Consequently we switched to Kub…

CO2 emissions from international flights will be capped at 2020 levels by international agreement so supersonic flight will have no net effect on emissions. https://www.icao.int/en…

Ocaml has a GIL. I've worked with people trying to build a distributed system in a language with a GIL and do not recommend it.

In principle yes, it was intended for general business reporting. Essentially each filing (called an instance) consists of a series of 'facts', each of which reports a single value…

Storing large objects in database rows impacts performance and scalability but this shouldn't be a problem unless your files are extraordinarily large.

There's a fairly large ecosystem of tools for creating and processing financial data in XBRL which doesn't exist for SQLite. All the Big 4 handle XBRL already - I know because I wr…