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Re. GUIs for git, have you taken a look at GitKraken [1]? I haven't had the chance to put it through its paces, but it looks pretty good. [1]: https://www.gitkraken.com/

Aah, sweet, someone else who uses Perforce! I've been wondering, do you use version control as: 1. a way to record logical changes to files (e.g. implement two features without mak…

Typo on your "R&D, Netizens" blurb: certyfication -> certification.

Thus the reason I know carpentry :3 but, having programmed for a while, it seems like the hardest problems are converting plain english requirements to source code. At the point th…

Isn't cyclomatic complexity just about the number of paths through code? It seems like (statically resolved) nested calls, as long as they don't loop or branch themselves, shouldn'…

I was thinking about the issue of nested code the other day -- isn't it (mostly) an editing environment problem? I mean, if my IDE can detect that a method is pure, couldn't it do …

I agree to an extent ... this example is pretty contrived, but when you start getting around ten filter/map/groupby operations in, it gets a little difficult to follow what's suppo…

Oh definitely, although I'll have to wait for it to be added to the JDK [1] in order to use that in anger :/ (outside of lombok) [1]: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/286

Just to be clear, wouldn't the alternative with a monorepo still require that you go back and forth with multiple teams if the commit is not backwards compatible? It seems like the…

That's like the function composition operator [1] in Haskell, right? Very neat :D I wonder if there's an equivalent macro in Scala ... [1]: http://lambda.jstolarek.com/2012/03/func…

From the perspective of a younger dev, this seems like excellent reading for older devs, who tend to enforce their personal style without deferring to the de facto language standar…

As someone who could very easily be on the other side of that code review (and I'm preeeettty sure I'm not in this case?) I feel obliged to at least try to provide a counterpoint :…

Your original post mentioned that you thought the author was inappropriately associating low prices with low quality ... that's not prejudice, though, right? That's a bog-standard …

Perhaps there's more to it than snobbery? Take, as an anecdote, this list of food safety incidents in China [1]. Whether or not that's comparable to the issues in the North America…

Super biased, layman thoughts incoming. Re. countries vs corporations: countries in isolation make laws for themselves (consumer protection, long-term economic protection, etc.), w…

Yes, but I have ... reservations. Same as with OCaml, I took on a small project with Scala and enjoyed the language, but only after carving out a subset of it that was palatable. A…

Aah, fair point, it is pretty niche. Still, merely going off of their comparative contribution graphs [1] [2] and issue trackers [3] [4], it seems like Frege has a fair bit more th…

Fair point, but it might almost be worth it just to suggest it just to see what the opposition is like -- if there isn't much, or any, go with Frege; otherwise, fall back to pure4j…

The idea behind both would be to introduce it incrementally, carving out parts of the codebase to be rewritten one section at a time. You're right, though; pure4j offers an immedia…

That definitely made the short list! I picked up ocaml for a side project and enjoyed the language quite a bit. However, ocamljava is either dead or dormant at this point (last com…

Hoping for a little advice: I'm trying to push for some development culture changes at work, one of which is doing more local, incremental refactors rather than large, all-at-once …