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I quite like AppCode, not for code formatting perse. More because it has decent refactoring support, better code analysis+quick fixes, and very keyboard friendly. I still miss the …

If you are willing to switch IDEs, then AppCode can do this. (+ clean up your unused imports). There is currently a bug in formatting Kiwi specs, but is marked as fixed in upcoming…

I don't understand his point on encapsulation of information versus implementation. If anyone can help me here, I would be grateful. * Should the user of your object/data have to m…

The point of testing/TDD for me is not (just) about preventing bugs, it is more about having quick feedback. Running a test is faster than waiting until it is deployed and manually…

Honestly, I hope there isn't immortality in heaven beyond the grave. Forever is a really long time. The first 1000 years in heaven might be interesting. The billion years after tha…

I honestly thought the elisp example code looked pretty bad as well. I don't like the flag-style programming (in-for, continue, destructuring) nor do I like the meaningless names (…

The idea is that using IDs reduces the reusability of your css rules.

According to that benchmark native Object.create is faster than constructor functions on Firefox 4. That said, I wouldn't base my coding decisions on those kinds of micro benchmark…

Object.create is a standard function in ecmascript5. I would add a check such as "if (!Object.create) {Object.create = ... }".

The dose is discussed in the article. The hypothesis is that 90 pounds of added sugars per person per year is toxic (current levels of consumption). 40 pounds per person per year i…

MobileMe and iWork.com are good examples I think.

I doubt that it has anything to do with technical proficiency. People like Steve Wozniak, Alan Kay, Tim Berners-Lee don't have the reputation of being assholes. In general, sites l…

In ES5 you have Function.prototype.bind that returns a new function with this bound to whatever you want. You can also pass extra default arguments. On older browsers you could use…

Why would you choose Github over Bitbucket for your FOSS projects? I haven't used Bitbucket yet, so I'm interested in a comparison.

There are other dynamic languages besides smalltalk that have a good IDE. Jetbrains provides IDEs with refactoring support for JavaScript, python, ruby, php and others.

On my dayjob we did some experiments on wether or not it was economically viable. So we tried classical programming and pair programming. We found that classical programming was mo…

How can you refactor if you don't have a test suite? Do you manually check everything in your application after every change? That's the main value of having a test suite you can t…

I believe one of the first refactoring was for Smalltalk, so it's not impossible. These days you also have IDEs with basic refactoring support for Python, Ruby, Javascript, Actions…

I've worked on such huge Java programs being maintained and updated for over 5 years. I actually don't think it is Java as a language which helps in maintenance. Type checking by t…