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A big problem with online discourse about programming if that so many people are in bubbles that they think are normal and think that anything outside of their experience is niche …

Redundancy is easy to misclassify as waste, particularly for someone who has incentives to find more ‘waste’ they can cut and claim credit for.

There are a lot of group chats I'm not in because I'm not on messenger.

I work with Australian tax - lots of regulatory complexity, add the documentation often assumes the reader is a CPA. I've got decent results by telling the chat bot to ask question…

Then there’s perl, which doesn’t free at all.

None of which were made by accountants. They were instead made by engineers who have experience and training in dealing with complex software systems.

Native apps are where power users and other non-developers can do programming. The type of things that an engineer who lives in the terminal might make a CLI or TUI for, an account…

People will often write about something that worked for them, and from that pull out abstractions they believe are generalised and universal. They rarely are. Organisational patter…

I think the observed feminisation isn't a causal factor, but instead shares a causal factor - that every space must now accept everyone. This causes a few problems. 0. One of the i…

You mentioned restrictions around sending money, but not restrictions on receiving money. If you put obligations on the banks receiving payments to refund scam victims, those banks…

It wasn't just storage. In the 90s, most servers were single core. Databases already had network interfaces so they could be shared by non-web applications running on desktops, and…

They perform elaborate cleansing rituals on any item brought into the crystal-writing room. When they enter, they wear special clothing, lest the impurities of the outside world ta…

We use invisible light to draw patterns on crystals to control the power of lightning. Definitely magic.

This is also the reason perl was used before python began to dominate. It was installed everywhere before python was installed everywhere.

Pre-covid, the real estate conspiracy was that management was pushing for smaller and more crowded open offices so that they would spend less.

Maybe the books that they're trying to market aren't books that kids want to read. There are a couple of quotes that point to that: > Connor was more blunt: “Maybe you think a book…

You need a way to assign technical debt to a process or practice, then you can evaluate the cost of that process over time. Could be something like... Our team spent 500 hours fixi…

You don't need a monopoly, you need competition. Renewables sell into the same energy market as fossil fuels, and get paid the same price. So you end up with low cost renewables ma…

Being capable of spending millions on lawyers doesn't mean a rich company wants to spend millions on lawyers. In many (if not most) cases, loosing at a fair arbitration would be ch…

A corporation is an organisation. It has internal processes, both documented/formal, and undocumented/informal - 'the way we do things here'. There are teams and departments, and r…

IMO, it should be the bank that receives the money that should have to pay. Banks (even small ones) need to know their own customers, and they take on the risk of not knowing them …

The third value on that list is efficiency. Is staying at the Ritz-Carlton an efficient use of company resources?

There's the 'arrested' part and the 'taxes' part. There are limitations on the power we give the government to arrest people and to collect taxes. But the limitations are only ther…

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr…

You can go further than that. Monitor every plant's lifecycle and yield, and save the best for seed. How many generations before you get superwheat? You could even have multiple st…