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The introduction to Clean Agile from Bob Martin has a history on software processes as he personally recounts it.

The original article (chinese version) http://china.caixin.com/2020-02-05/101511802.html

Good advice? I don't know. And that's going to be the problem. When I was a lead engineer at $oldCompany, I was responsible for an ad server, backed by GBs of blocking rules, that …

Unlike my parents. I have the opportunity to help coach my daughter's soccer team, to read to them each night, to choose from a number of extracurricular activities that we can aff…

I remember my older sister verbally relaying stories from Jin Yong (金庸) to me when I was very young. These stories contributed greatly to my love of reading growing up. An archetyp…

Participating in selection bias!

It's really great that they released the code used for the research, though without the actual transcripts, e.g., dialogueByAct.tsv, it's hard to fully reproduce their findings.

The charitable interpretation of that sentence is that "There's no reason for there to be more men than women". It begs the question "Why do men get so much airtime?"

Can you share the granular data that would lead to the results in your paper? In other words, the 504 cases that would yield different results based each additional factor included…

Very cool! Error handling is a shortcoming of Go. If you enjoy coding in Go, as I do, then you'll appreciate this pattern (errors are values). Yes, I wish there are more powerful o…

Choosing to dismiss Taobao's success because of the Chinese gov't stacks the deck against American companies is choosing to not learn anything from their success. For example, how …

https://blog.golang.org/errors-are-values This article does not read like "touting as a benefit". Excerpt from it: Still, if the perception persists that one must type if err != ni…

Great answer

cookiercutter runs on the host - outside the container.

Agreed.

I would propose that when you create a library, you think of other programmers like web designers think of end users. In addition to simplicity of the API, efficiency of the code, …

You can spend time on homework in many ways: Getting your children to think about problems from different angles; Understanding where they struggle and should spend more time; Unde…

Off the top of my head Rosie Revere Engineer and others from the same author The Fairy Bell Sisters Magic Treehouse Junie B Jones Princess in Black Ling and Ting series The Golly S…

my family would often chide me for using "big words"... The truth is, I was just trying to relate something I'd learned... That sounds terrible. You are not allowed to be yourself …

"Who uses touch screens for development?" I do! While the kids were watching TV, I was sitting next to them coding a personal project. As I was scrolling through documentation on t…

Do you have data that backs that cleanup is inarguably expensive? This article, which more concrete, suggests 5% of revenue is required to be saved. http://www.world-nuclear.org/in…

The "without telling anyone else" part is potentially the problem. Imagine you committed time and energy to build a decent system - not perfect, but most people are ok with. You fe…