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Blaming people for using ancient software is really weird. There’s no other context where we demand constant replacement of things that work
—Pinboard (@Pinboard) May 12, 2017
I'm not sold about this argument at all.
The "constant replacement" issue has two sides to it. If you follow the …
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Data Science Renee(@BecomingDataSci)
Thread. Coding is inherently frustrating. Expect that. But with puzzle-solving healthy attitude, keep going. Don't give up on yourself!
This thread includes some interesting topics. What hit me was the idea of "inspiration-driven coding."
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Read this: http://jeffq.com/blog/the-ethernet-pause-frame/ Fascinating. A world of interconnected devices in which we place a kind of implicit trust. There's little visibility for ordinary consumers. It takes a skilled specialist to determine that there are flaws in a product. It's not that the system is "flaky." It's …
more ...Read this: http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html.
I was originally focused on "beauty". Clearly, good design is beautiful. Isn't that obvious? Why so many words to explain the obvious?
The post seemed useless. Why write it in the first place? Why share it? Why share it now, 12 years …
more ...Three terms that seem to cause confusion: Idempotence, Hysteresis and Deterministic. The subject came up during my webcast on the Five Kinds of Python Functions. We can use all three terms to describe a function. Two of them are relevant to common design questions in software. The third is a …
more ...We'll be digging into Mastering Object-Oriented Python. Chapter 17, specifically.
We'll also be looking at a big refactoring of the Stingray Schema-Based File Reader.
We can identify three species of packages.
One common design is a Simple Package. A directory with an empty __init__.py file. This package name becomes …
more ...JavaScript is a swampy foundation for your enterprise codebase: My latest column at SD Times http://t.co/a82aUquk0d — Larry O'Brien (@lobrien) February 20, 2014
The correct answer is: It Doesn't Matter. In spite of this. (A) The question gets asked. And worse. (B) It gets answered. And people take their answers seriously. As if there are Profound Differences among programming languages. Among Turing Complete programming languages there are few Profound Differences. The pragmatic differences …
more ...It may be helpful to look back at 'How Managers Say "No"' which is about breaking the RDBMS Hegemony.
I got an email in which the simple concepts of "data manipulation" and "persistence" had become entangled with SQL DML to a degree that the conversation failed to make sense to …
more ...Got an email looking for help in attempting break through the RDBMS Hegemony. It's a little confusing, but this is the important part of how management says "no".
"Their response was nice but can you flush [sic] it out more"
[First: the word is "flesh": "flesh it out." Repeat after …
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