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Normally I skim these write-ups and then move on, but something about this time finds me exhausted. Enough already. I was a huge proponent of XML and back in the day I would also e…

I tend to agree with you: this did not age well. You know what is just as bad as architecture astronauts, wunderkinds ranting about how other smart people are stupid. This whole po…

That seems off topic. SICP is about understanding language, not architecture. That would be like saying you need to understand how SED and AWK would be implemented is Lisp before y…

Come on. Two typos in the first few pages; p.2 "servicees", p.6 "lanuage". I know you are smarter than me, but if seven people decided that an editor would be useless, or spellchec…

Honestly, what is the purpose of this post? Is HN really the place for clickbait? You would get the same reaction with something like "Do you think functional programming is benefi…

This is a great comment, but I would generalize to just about any other profession. Are nurses bored with bandaids and hoping for better technology? And also comparisons between co…

I'm old and changes in technology have baffled me for years. So here's a hypothetical: if RSS was still popular, would we be having this conversation? I assume that the next phase …

I would like to support your comment and add that I enjoy these articles because I like programming languages and thinking about program execution. However, I think what delibes is…

This. I've been writing code for years, but every time I pull a repo of the latest web app it turns into a series of frustratingly complicated learning exercises. I'm 17 all over a…

With all due respect, I don't think the question is "how do we simplify SPAs?"; I think the question is "why do we need to run any app in a browser?" Look at the work associated wi…

I agree. The semantics even within this set of flowcharts is confusing: blocks start out representing statements but by the time you get to Dependency Injection, they represent any…

I thought that's what solutions like Calcite[1] were for: running queries across disparate data sources. Yes, you still need to have adapters for each source to normalize access se…

I'm not trying to nitpick, but UML is purpose-first, not solution-first. The language always allowed for varying levels of abstraction (i.e. linguistics, not layers), and it was al…

This latest article about Detroit developers seems to support that [0]. A meager $300K dished out to politicians opened up the possibility of $700M-$1B plus the developers of these…

I think your comment is closest to reality. I believe it was incremental and deliberate, but the key piece that is missing from your assessment is that we (the royal "we") haven't …

I definitely do not understand what's going on here. As noted in the appeal posted by Doctorow [1], DMCA prohibits bypassing DRM so this W3C "approval" seems completely unnecessary…

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I'm not sure I understand this idea. By "read code" do you mean run the program in your head? As in, "start with main(), follow this loop, go to func()..."? Because if that is the …

I don't use k8s, so forgive my ignorance, but what are the use cases in "the enterprise"? How many "enterprises" need to manage 1K microservice containers to approve weekly timeshe…

I think you're asking the right questions. I would assume that your class targeted Lisp because SICP uses it. While that is a great resource, it is light on details when it comes t…

Thank you for clarifying. wrt your final decision: obviously, those aren't very compelling reasons. It would be simpler for you to say "We don't care about previous solutions. We'r…

To be fair, I think that previous comment was implying the constellation of XML technologies e.g. XSD, XPath. XML encoding is rarely used in isolation because, honestly, what's the…

> XML means "eXtensible Markup Language" - so pretty much exactly a description of the data it contains. This is the belief that Eric Browne argued against in 2003[1]. "exactly a d…

Okay, first of all, the current fascination with JSON is not fundamentally different from the previous fascination with XML. The only thing that anyone can agree on is that JSON is…