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NOT OP but there's very little I would not sell or change my mind for $5bn. That much money just to go back on a promise to not sell would be a very easy decision (bear in mind tha…

I believe they're getting $5bn each. Though of course your point still stands.

I don't see the promise impacting an employee's decision at all: 1) Founders promise not to sell. Employee is offered salary without equity. 2) Founders say nothing about selling. …

Not the person you're responding to, but those comments are not saying the same thing at all. One asserts that nerds want to know the details for ego reasons. The other asserts tha…

This comment helpfully explains many of the reasons Rich had for choosing immutable, persistent, generic data structures as the core information model in clojure (instead of concre…

TFA and the person you're replying are not suggesting you can never complain (at least I don't think they are). There is a difference between not complaining vs raising issues cons…

Was the game free? And did the people working on the game contribute a lot of their time to it for free? If not then I can see the reason for your frustration, however it is not th…

Regarding REPL restarts: You don't need to use stuff like component. There are far lighter weight alternatives with no requirements for app structure. I use "mount" [0] for this. Y…

Please may you specify what consultant you're referring to here so I can answer more thoroughly. In general, I highly doubt anyone would hire a consultant just to "rewrite code". R…

Thank you for explaining much more clearly and succinctly than me.

I think another possibility in addition to what you mentioned is that the original design was incorrect, or even just not very optimal. Just as an aside. However this is all becomi…

I'm not entirely clear what you mean. Are you referring to the disaster artist consultant mentioned in another comment? I don't think anything can stop someone like that from wreck…

Your article was very clear. Thank you for writing it. It is a common refrain against simple mottos or ideologies in programming for people to pick the worst memory they have of a …

So for the consultant: Yes he did, clearly this consultant was an absolute disaster. An excellent cautionary tale of arrogance combined with lack of ability and design thinking. Ch…

Other developers, unless it's a solo dev at a small company. Then roll the dice and hope you hired someone with good design sensibilities.

Whilst improvements shouldn't be done ad-hoc without consideration, I think the concept of "left alone" applies more easily to the concept of natural spaces. In code it is really s…

This sounds very different to the process described in post. Are you raising this anecdote as an argument against the boy scout rule? I don't think you would find many people who w…

Funnily enough that is the inverse of the historical meaning of decimated (to destroy 10% of something).

I am currently learning mandarin and my wife is chinese. This word, Na Ge (sometimes pronounced Ney Guh), can be said in rapid succession with little to no pauses between syllables…

I believe conditionals is referring to if statements (and their ilk, switch/case/cond etc). Rules is referring to rule systems and/or more generally declarative knowledge systems. …

TFA appears to address this, the automated system is used to help identify comments for human moderators. The human is the one responsible. And according to stack overflow they pla…

I can confirm that buildkite is a fantastic replacement for jenkins. - pipelines stored in source control - hosted on your own servers (with easy one click setup in AWS if you're t…

A language with no built-in multi-threading capabilities is unlikely to suit every backend. Running multiple copies of the same lightweight process works quite well for stateless h…

Can you list some of these metrics?

Same, was reviewing alternatives to mingle a short while ago, saw nothing of this product.