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"It worked different three months ago...". But I agree that this is no reason to gave to wade through commented out sections[1] but to simply use the powers of diff. [1] Including …

I definitely recognize these patterns from non-startups. Ingredients: demanding customers, company led by former developers who still avoid all non-coding related improvements as e…

Another important thing he points at is to not write you own incarnation of every library you find lacking but provide patches/support/whatever to existing ones. While it might hel…

I would want to turn the question around and (genuinely, not rhetorically) ask: which ecosystems right now do have a good security baseline? Am I wrong when I guess Java/.Net/Ruby …

In this case you are probably right. The solution with separate configuration shines though, when you have many values to configure (notwithstanding keyword args). But, and that is…

So you see how difficult it is to please armchair psychologists: leaving out the first person pronoun from sentences is also considered bad style by some (with the suggested pseudo…

The BoE document linked in the text: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte... ("Money creation in the modern economy")

I am probably not smart, maybe not intellectual but most definitely not a lady. As for the industry: seemingly the industry thinks that showing ass and tits on a booth is worth it.…

> I think nobody is to blame here An industry who employs women as booth babes , apparently because staring at a booth babe sells tech better? Stinks.

Considering the first half: your are playing their game, isn't it? (something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEv1L4MCHj8 )

I think it's the chinese whisper effect applied to http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html [0] and as such more cult than information. As witnessed by the discussion around her…

Indeed. That fluff article reminds me of the .NET spam around 2005. Pointing out three times that "the best developers...like to use new technologies": so, they leave you with a pi…

If your code turns into 30 one-liners with 30! unforeseen possible calling combinations thereby exposing an API of irrelevant auxiliary functions to the outside world? Yes.

It's less about the transactions but the money. >> 3 * 1005.01 => 3015.0299999999997 This might get truncated to 3015.02 and might >> 3 * 1005.01 * 10000 => 30150299.999999996 turn…

Not from an outside view I would say. But when we are talking about the subjective perception of stress, it might as well be that the stress as perceived by the diver or the A&E co…

The document estimates that between 3% and 11% of the Yahoo webcam imagery harvested by GCHQ contains "undesirable nudity". Discussing efforts to make the interface "safer to use",…