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This is pretty clearly not the case. Apple and Facebook are companies, not platforms. The platforms these companies develop are wildly successful and loved by developers. I think y…

A lot of folks seem to think this kind of technology needs to be marketed or launched the way a hip Silicon Valley startup should be. I understand how the argument that critical ma…

You can’t seriously be comparing rebuilding arbitrary software to building an atomic weapon.

I don’t think that’s entirely true. A lot of the ideas talked about in this article and that most people have already become familiar with are not very abstract. If you tried to bu…

You might be able to foster a deeper appreciation for some of these ideas by playing with Elm a little bit. Some time ago, they implemented time-travel in the standard debugger, an…

I'd argue that's not entirely true. Consider, for example, the fact that corporate prisons exist in America. I would say there is a difference in governance, but I hesitate to spec…

The parent post shouldn't be interpreted as dismissing the argument because it isn't interesting but because it has been beaten to death. It's the kind of argument that has been ha…

This is an incredibly common stance, and it's also very obviously problematic. No one is saying that your experience in software is invalid or that you're wrong about "these modern…