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That odd civil war was more than a tiny bit like revolutions elsewhere though (violent beheadings, paranoid totalitarianism, bourgeois ascendancy) - it just happened a little earli…

It's surely supposed to be the perfect bridge between both - but we know in practice it often isn't. I'd also quibble minorly with intent being what the code should be clearly comm…

Or - it sounds like spaghetti, but ordered into a sounder structure

Not satire so much as an ironic dialectic - a progress through a series of (decreasingly?) daft ideas

Surely it was going to be the rise of class consciousness that overthrew Moloch? Though if we're all involved in the process ourselves, and only gain this consciousness through wor…

And very reasonably so. What you want, right, is a two-tier system: a kind of limbo state for the partially-read, a liberal scattering of them about the house, where they will heal…

Fun fact: in the glossary at the end of the original xp book, it describes unit tests as 'tests from the perspective of the programmer', and that's that - a woolly cop-out.

I agree, rewriting with a clear head works wonders - but, to be fair to the op, when you rewrite your own code you'll be very appreciative of all the challenges and possibilities. …

If everyone's got the plague does that mean they're all in tip top health? Nope. Festering, bulbous pustules are what they are, and don't magically transform by force of numbers. T…

If you approach it with the attitude that the condition determines the person, then I suppose, yes, that's true. But that's a pretty miserable attitude to approach it with. It's mu…

Our flat is the same - I enjoy letting the mould grow on the wall, in its pretty, grey shapes. And every Summer, as the world turns in its natural course, there's the seasonal infe…

Well, yes - but being speculatively questioned is more infuriating because it's pretending to be the exact opposite of what it really is, as long as the questioner is happily takin…

No software is creatively fathomed out of nothing. Opinionated frameworks abound, pre-ordaining the little manouevres needed to wire them up properly, and solving familiar problems…

But there's dismerit in monocultures - maybe those F# folks are pleased to be avoiding that. Plus, if you're situated in a historical process (like we all are) then arbitrary thing…

Not entirely on topic, obviously, but whatever: there's a strange emphasis on the male pronoun in the first paragraph of this, that at first seems like a kind of horrible hiccup fr…

But mimickry of conversational tics is only one side of the coin - as much as we all like to lather ourselves in a common medium, it's also pleasant to distinguish ourselves from o…

Elsewhere in the fertile field of morbid Conservativism, there's good rumination to be had in the shady corner that is Book III of the Alan Clark Diaries . Despite being likeable a…

Chastisement and reconfirmation in one glittering, bulging codpiece

Also - the glistening of jewellery.

Isn't it implied in being territorial?

That's fascinating. Maybe nasally-orientated organisms conceive themselves more as ambient presences than as hard-bodied social atoms?

Too right. And Foucault's conception of power allows this kind of non-scientific practice to be reasoned about.

It does seem familiar, but it doesn't seem like Foucault. If power's everywhere, it can hardly be a bad thing in itself. The point isn't to oppose it, but to be cognizant of it, to…

Looking for small things in a field requires, and promotes, a particular mindset - like you have to let your imagination run from the slightest impressions, and trust your innate p…