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You are not wrong.

What I read between the lines: “I have such a fragile ego that I feel offended when a tool points out a mistake I made. I feel intellectually rewarded by doing the same busywork ov…

TIL you can actually drag Scrollbars on iOS. They are so tiny I would never have assumed they react to a touch.

“The dog/child/vacuum cleaner ate my instruction manual” is probably a common support request at Lego, so there is no point in making the digital manuals difficult to access.

Begin by throwing the language away. Provide a tool that converts existing CMake scripts to the new, sane language. Use an established programming language for the new language.

real web sites are somehow still worse than this parody

Apparently not. It is crazy that they delete a random line of code and don't update or add a single test at the same time. Absolute madness. I wonder what they are doing instead th…

Yes, and that's what automated tests are for. They "replicate" specific conditions and make it possible to cover everything. That's what unit tests are. This has nothing to do with…

Another way to put it: If you know how long something will take in advance, you have a solution in mind. It is unlikely that this solution is (A) the best one and (B) the one you w…

I actually said something like that during a meeting. "Yes, you can do it that way, but if someone finds out we will be in the news." This argument worked surprisingly well.

It's weird how languages like YAML, XML and JSON are very much designed for communication between machines, but are still the default choice for human input. Actual programming lan…

What kind of genius does one have to be to earn $800k? Or do you possess rare knowledge and connections in your industry?

You just said "They are huge, but they are actually not very good" in a lot more words.

"but it looks fine on my $4000 MacBook with my perfect 25-year old eyes"

Paypal has recurring payments and I thought it was exactly this. Never tried to cancel via Paypal, so I am not sure how this works.

I looked for any useful documentation for a few minutes and just gave up. I don't want to read a book. I don't want to watch a video. This is not my first programming language, tha…

It's the worst mistake because it made you believe that its atrocious ergonomics are actually superior to more sensible solutions. Implicit nullability doesn't really save you any …

I always wonder why Linux doesn't seem to have any kind of tests. How can they afford not to have regression tests for bugs they fixed? How do they know that this bug fix didn't br…

What's numpy?

IMO it goes more like this: Music makes you happy, being happy makes you more productive. Don't overthink this too much.

I am surprised that some aren't.

I think the argument is that if it's so hard for most people to see the difference between "Agile" and "not Agile", maybe Agile is unsuitable for most. In my experience barely anyo…

So peace is bad because the world fails to implement that? It's not black and white. Organizations can still benefit from discussion and reflection even if they can't fully be Agil…

Yes, the values are too vague. The twelve principles are better for conveying what Agile is trying to be. The "responding to change" point means in practice that it's better to dev…

That's why Microsoft made sure that Windows Update always runs in the background and never reboots during a presentation. Oh wait..