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Oh gosh - now that you mention it, it was "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" that I was thinking of, not "Refactoring".

I think Martin Fowler's "Refactoring" might give a bit of insight here. One of my take-aways after reading that book is that the specific implementation of a function is not very i…

What does being founded in Montreal have to do with integrity?

> LA is currently the only city in North America building new subway lines. That is demonstrably false. As I type this comment I can hear the sounds of excavators digging out a sta…

I've also done this and my record count was 120. 120 sponsored or suggested posts about things I don't care about in between the posts from people I'm actually interested in. I'll …

Unfortunately the Midines is basically vaporware. I don't think he has actually built and delivered a cart in more than 15 years. He took my money for one about 18 years ago and ne…

Do you have examples of what context-oriented media like this would look like? After watching news about the pandemic, I found it interesting to see how short the collective public…

CBC is the public broadcaster in Canada, and Marketplace specifically has a good record of consumer-oriented investigative journalism like this. You might be familiar with another …

I have been using GAMMA, for Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon. "Gamma" as a word is sciencey, which I like, and swapping out Netflix for Microsoft seems reasonable to me.…

I'll share a memory circa 2010 from my time at BlackBerry that comes to mind when people point out performance problems like this. Around that time, whenever a new BlackBerry devic…

I'm not sure if you're mis-remembering or I am, but the Bold 9000 (meteor) launched the year before the Storm. Though maybe you meant the 9700 (onyx)? As I recall, the development …

Flight Chops is based in Canada, so anytime he's flying up here he'll fall under Transport Canada and Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs). There are no legal requirements in Canad…

Styrofoam actually is recyclable, though you'd have to check with your local municipality to see if it's accepted. For example, it's listed as a "blue bin" item in Toronto: https:/…

Has your health care practitioner suggested a probiotic of lactobacillus plantarum (specifically Lp299v)? This study published in February of 2021[1] suggests it can significantly …

Incredible, thank you for sharing this. I live within walking distance of this museum and have a small collection of various early radio and television pieces, yet I had never hear…

> I remember this showing up in the SO sidebar a long time ago (what a time-suck that thing is). I ended up installing this Chrome extension to block the "Hot Network Questions" pa…

A great feature not only for players, but for developers as well. If every change to game state goes through an event system you can reproduce any bug or crash as long as you're ca…

The QNX-based OS started with BlackBerry 10 around 2013. Everything before that was a Java VM on top of a relatively small OS written by the company.

I would say that Jon Ronson's book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" (mentioned in the article), is also excellent. I would especially recommend it for anyone building social media …

Got it. I have a project that I want to do based on a TI CC-1125 to connect 303 MHz devices in my home to a smart home system, but of course all the interesting parts these days co…

Neat! Do you get paste stencils made as part of the PCBA manufacturing process? How many components a year were you hand soldering or reflowing before you decided to try and automa…

Thanks! I'm not sure how I overlooked the forums. It looks like there is someone there who has ported everything to Buster, so it looks like there is at least enough of a community…

So this is a bit off-topic, but I pulled out my Novena this past weekend to work on an SDR project and after updating the installed packages I started wondering about the process o…

Whenever I hear about this building I can't help but be reminded of Geoff Manaugh's idea for a Ghostbusters III, where the Ghostbusters discover that the NYNEX telephone system is …

The Pixar Touch describes the creation of the company and first few films that Pixar made. I especially enjoyed it because of my interest in computer graphics, but it's probably a …