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How many editors can you think of that don't do any (strictly) unnecessary file operations, e.g. renaming files? The author's problem is that Emacs is just really good at it, so he…

I feel like this is a wild mis-characterisation. American isn't in danger of becoming a victim; America is trying to suppress academic pursuits and intellectualism. It is political…

to come up with and advocate for paired programming before the concept existed _is_ pretty brilliant. And you also don't understand how much those practices improved software engin…

I was completely ready to agree with you, but the code that I browsed actually looked really good. https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse/blob/master/src/fitness... Yup, OK, got it. …

Yo! What's wrong with chess? ;-)

FWIW (not a lot), I do believe in a lot of these principles. For example, even with widescreen monitors, it is still useful to limit line length. Why? Because many people will have…

It would be good if we could create a digital fortress around the US that stopped unwanted things from coming in. Like a firewall for the country. . . .

As a senior developer of 30+ years experience, I agree and was going to post the same thing. If code is difficult to understand, I consider that to be a bug. And if, for some reaso…

That's a really interesting data point about your experience with TypeScript. I'm going to have to file that away as something that I'm not sure what to do with right now, but also…

I acknowledge that there are passionate users of most programming languages, but I also 100% agree that the FP crowd are something different. I feel like most other languages have …

As others have commented, most people have specialised knowledge. For example, I've been programming professionally for about 30 years; let me share my knowledge of game programmin…

The opposite viewpoint is that you are being included in these meetings so that you can prevent bad decisions by management. What if you aren't in a meeting where it is decided tha…

I agree completely. I tend to do 'UML light', where I don't worry about the finer details (e.g. marking fields public or private). The best solution is one where I can sketch out t…

I don't think it was software architecture, UML or design patterns that was bad. I think the 'Open-Closed Principle' is one of the worst ideas to ever gain popular acceptance. For …

I will treat your comment as serious and explain why I personally use emacs. The thing I love most about emacs is that it is joyously consistent. The same key combination to jump a…

If you were asked to provide guidance for companies who wished to avoid using nicespeak, what recommendations would you provide? And do you have advice for situations where a compa…

As an emacs user, I support this comment. I think the main point is that there is a long-term benefit to learning multi-use text editors. Yes, it is painful at first, but the divid…

Hey Cole, I think the site looks great and is very useful. The one suggestion I have would be to add a bit of space to everything to give it some breathing room. These are the chan…

I've been programming for approximately 20 years, and there was a period where I was definitely burnt out. I can remember thinking to myself, 'who would ever read a blog about prog…

Yeah, this description doesn't sit with me very well, either. I fully support the argument that Angular is not a good choice because React is more popular and has a larger pool of …

I feel like I am the odd one out in that I don't hate MBTI. I would not use them as a measurement of performance or individual worth, but I do think they might have some value as a…

The first time I tried this simulator, it looked like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtrB5sQtrvA Of course, that was not on an RTX 3090.

I disagree with nearly every response in this thread (not yours). The 'cutesy' error messages are step 1 to providing a better user experience. 'This is awkward! Something went wro…

My recollection of the time was that it was the port of Microsoft Office that made Apple viable as an alternative operating system (which was a result of the DOJ pressure, and not …