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The author isn’t comparing apples with apples. “Butterfly valve” is the name for a type of widget. There are many instances of “butterfly valve”, some of which will have strange br…

I think you mean empathetic, rather than emphatic.

I see this “AWS for everything” Well-Architected stuff everywhere. AWS benefits greatly from inserting itself in between all our architectural layers. There’s nothing stopping comp…

Humans hugely undervalue their time. £12.50 per day is a bargain for a tradesperson if it means they can do more work because they’re spending less time idling in traffic jams.

Behavioural change is a key part of these schemes. Kids walking to school, families getting groceries delivered, or picking up groceries by foot on the walk home from the bus are a…

The train companies operate trains, not lines. For example; CrossCountry’s service runs on track shared with other passenger companies and freight from Penzance up to Scotland.

This is my experience as an adult studying calculus, linear algebra, dynamic programming etc. Calculus is mostly algebra. If you can’t reliably solve algebraic equations, derivativ…

I want to verify for myself that I _know_ the material. A series of challenging exams will do that more thoroughly than completing exercises from a textbook or online course (where…

I’m in a very similar position. I didn’t go to uni and somehow found myself in a programming career. In a few weeks I’ll be sitting A-level (UK advanced high school) Mathematics ex…

> The code makers have been ahead since about the 1970s. Or so the code breakers would have us believe…

I was with this post until the author mentioned a /utils or /helpers directory, which made me sad. No piece of code is so bland that it can’t be placed somewhere with a name that d…

Lawyers aren’t the users here. The users of law are normal people and companies that need to transact with untrusted parties. Well-paid lawyers clinging to Microsoft Word are a cos…

I’ve always wondered if contracts themselves couldn’t be expressed in a parsable domain-specific language. IANAL, but it seems to me that source code and contracts/legislation/poli…

This is very seductive, but what happens when I need to refactor the database? Do all my API consumers just have to deal with a new interface?

We use currying at work to inject dependencies. E.g. `sendEmail(mockEmailService)(to, subject, body) ` I find it helps to differentiate between side-effecting dependencies and para…

And the is-odd package.json requires is-number! Jesus...