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How do you end crunch? Teams always work at a more relaxed pace when the deadlines are years out. You can't beat Parkinson's law no matter how generous you are with the estimates. …

Without the explicit recur it's far too easy to misidentify a tail call and use recursion where it's not safe. Recur has zero inconvenience. It's four letters, it verifies that you…

> Speaking to female and male friends, both sides are seeing them as a complete shitshow In what sense?

It's not really surprising. Hetero sexual desire has been framed negatively for well over a decade, as at best exploitative and at worst misogynistic and perverted. Men told that i…

Age limits on buying cigarettes are easily thwarted by finding a corner shop that needs the sale and will sell to kids. Height restrictions on fairground rides are easily thwarted …

10+ years ago Clojure had a fantastic introductory experience. lein new and away you go. lein was so good and effective, for both tiny hello world projects and real production apps…

Which of these languages is declarative? Aren't they both imperative?

Is there any benefit to using workspaces over just introducing some variables and having an 'environment' variable? You can have a directory per environment and a directory of shar…

Why was Poland so high?

This is a good example, I think, of why a future in which all homework is obsolete because of AI is actually not likely. If a lecturer at university sets a task for 100 students (s…

> a red headed step child Very good point, but please stop using this phrase.

My friends and I had great fun with Micro Machines 2 on the Mega drive (Genesis). The cartridge itself was fascinating because it had two extra controller ports on it! You had for …

This seems pedantic, but I suppose anyone using the term 'superset' is inviting the pedantry. For almost all intents and purposes, if you are asked to create a YAML file then you c…

I guess at least their work has confirmed what we probably already knew intuitively: if you have CPU-intensive tasks, without waiting on anything, and you want to execute these con…

Not all stock photography is corporate cheese.

Yes, please just choose a good photo. There are plenty that are free for all uses.

I struggle with this one because exceptions are a perfectly good solution. The compiler will tell you when you are not handling a failure case. And if exceptions are unchecked, the…

> A portion of this code implemented a SMTP client. What the...

Does anyone know if you can use Go Henry or Hyperjar cards on the tube?

I think "drop in paper ticket sales" is unlikely to be misconstrued as a drop in sale in general.

This issue is nuanced for Microsoft . The health of PC gaming is a huge factor in the sales performance of home consoles, and of course Microsoft dominates that arena via Windows. …

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Amen, and if you try to keep pure parts and side-effecting parts separated, the problem of reasoning about side effects is limited to a very small part of your code. The pure typed…