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Thanks for this -- I can't speak for the person you're responding to, but I had the same confusion and it was definitely because I was thinking of Cringely.

I'll often use sequence diagrams or entity relationship diagrams when I need to explain how a piece of code works (or even just visualize it for myself). I don't tend to be very pe…

All the time. Many times per day. I've been programming for fifteen years, and I think my willingness to Google things has only gone up over that time. There are a lot more things …

This article is from a year ago and change. Have there been any recent developments? I've seen the link going around lately, but I can't tell whether it's because there's news or j…

Having lived through this winter in the Northeast, I can promise you that SF is beautifully warm all year round. Case in point: it is a place where people use the word "freezing" t…

::cries::

There are so many things to love about this speech, but I think my favorite part is this: "the only thing that actually works is not ideological, it is impure, has elements of both…

Pairing with other experienced programmers works very well for me, and has made me more effective as a programmer. I've also seen our junior developers learn a lot from pairing wit…

The article's link to the original paper doesn't seem to be working. Here it is: http://csis.pace.edu/~grossman/dcs/XR4-PromiscuousPairing.pd...

My understanding is that the Promiscuous Pairing idea was started by real developers working on a real project with tight deadlines. The point of the paper is that, counterintuitiv…

You're proposing what sounds like a pretty novel interpretation of the first amendment. Do you have any evidence that it's widely accepted, or that it's correct?

To push the metaphor a bit too far, I think it's more about people realizing they just don't want cake that much. As you say, it's perfectly possible to build a good community if y…

This is really slick! It's the first realtime, WYSIWYG tool I've used that still feels like a Wiki.

Consider saying this explicitly during the sign-up process! I avoided using my Google account to log in, but I probably would have gone ahead and done it if I'd known that you were…

* There are memorable keyboard shortcuts for everything. * It can generate comparatively more code for you. * It's faster, though I fear it's working on losing this advantage. * Th…

Much of the time, I'd agree. But working on a large system in Java, I repeatedly see a few places where Java's boilerplate overwhelms the code I actually care about. Operations on …

It's suitable, not suitible - normally I wouldn't be so pedantic, but in a thread around the idea of people having to prove they know meanings/spellings/etc, it seems apropriate.

The building I work in once had a contest: whichever floor recycled the most paper in a month got an ice cream party.

Tempting, but the system's only covered by end-to-end tests that take years to run. I'm afraid to change it!

This is delightful. What I'd really like to see now is one that could learn from people's reactions to it: pay attention to which of its tweets were retweeted or favorited and try …

I think I'm blithely misreading the article here, but I'm inclined to take it as advice about how to do TDD, rather than an argument against it. Specifically: if a class has lots o…

My favorite thing about this article is that it made me stop and think through why the bug would actually exist in so many browsers. I can make sense of the IE bug: "" doesn't star…

It sounds like your philosophy of testing is about what mine was a year ago. Since then, I think I've modified it in two big ways: 1) I've found that potential bugs, and design pro…

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