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First of all, IANAL and I have no real-world experience with your scenario either. Below is all armchair reasoning. That said, my chair is pretty comfortable and I reason a lot fro…

Judging a blog post by its title alone is hardly fair. Raymond clearly explains what it's about in the post itself. No pretenses about full generality are being made. "Some caches …

The Dutch government is batting 10 for 10 when it comes to pushing through legislation that mocks the idea of privacy openly. Another stellar idea they had: gather fingerprints for…

But "experienced" is another one of those glowing words (like "smart") that emphasizes you knew your way around in the past. This is an external marker, something other people judg…

"Lazy" I get, but when he says "dumb" I think "humble" conveys the idea better. You shouldn't be "too smart", but that's not the same thing as being dumb. Letting go of preconceive…

If the code is really intricate, I refactor it to understand how it works (and how it ought to work, which can be an important way of spotting bugs). But even though refactoring is…