This is not necessarily about the code, but I've been really impressed for a while by the lodash project and its maintainer's dedication to constantly keep the number of open issues at 0. Any issues get dealt with at…
In my experience, knowing when work on some functionality will _start_ plus a rough estimate on effort (talking hours/days/weeks level) is quite acceptable for most stakeholders. It is also far easier to provide, and…
it('sends an email to the user', ...)
One I've been looking forward to for a while: native notifications on OSX!
Vendor lock-in.
Please don't fall into the Dunning-Kruger[0] trap by assuming a straightforward task is also easy to perform. These things may very well be complex and include aspects that are not immediately obvious. And even if they…
Feature-wise it's great but the .com version can be really slow. A simple git push of a few small commits took me about 50 seconds earlier this week.
> It's super powerful because word dropping cost nothing to produce and cost a lot to dismiss with proper arguments. Sounds like you may be referring to the Bullshit Asymmetry Priciple:…
This also reminds me of a talk by Maxim Februari at the most recent TEDx Amsterdam[0]. From the description: The infrastructure of connected things [..] imposes norms on citizens. Not in the form of written laws: the…
Git only started really clicking with me when I started thinking of most of my actions as graph building and traversals. It also helps to realize that for most intents and purposes, commits in git are immutable and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws Which contains (apart from the obvious Murphy's law and Occam's razor) such pearls as the Peter Principle, the Dunning-Kruger effect, and Hofstadter's Law. 20+ tabs…
Not specifically about this prediction, but he touched on the uncertainty factor in the latest Model Talk podcast episode: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-uncertainty-is-...
That one and the Christmas Special were the two episodes that kept me up at night.
What also floats on water?
To me this is a form of the Dunning-Kruger effect[0], where only somewhat informed people estimate the cost of a "0.1" (or POC) release without considering the famous "unknown unknowns" which may involve scaling,…
While luck isn't something you can completely control, it doesn't have to be entirely random either. I read this article a while back talking about a "luck surface area"[0], which you can expand, increasing your odds of…
I would love to see a general purpose API client that works similar to the Elasticsearch client Sense [0]. A simple, free-text scratchpad style client that allows for easy editing and firing of requests. Maybe it's hard…
> The PostststgreSQL project never fails to impress me. Let's see how many iterations we'll need for people to actually notice what was pointed out here ;)
Love that podcast. Really a shame he's stepping down from it.
Try writing YAML in combination with templating (such as in Salt). Because indentation means hierarchy, it's terrible. I'd much rather use JSON in such a context.
Yes. This is one of the main reasons I like to do most of my writing (which, admittedly, is not a whole lot) with Markdown.
I am from the Netherlands. Euthanasia is legal here, although strictly regulated (as I think it should be by the way, this is not the sort of choice that should be taken or approved lightly by anyone involved). Several…
I stand corrected.
Or he may have been diagnosed one or more years ago.
From personal experience, I can very much relate to and agree with this piece. My father went through a similar process: cancer (melanoma) – two years of treatment and coming to terms with the facts – euthanasia. As a…
This is not necessarily about the code, but I've been really impressed for a while by the lodash project and its maintainer's dedication to constantly keep the number of open issues at 0. Any issues get dealt with at…
In my experience, knowing when work on some functionality will _start_ plus a rough estimate on effort (talking hours/days/weeks level) is quite acceptable for most stakeholders. It is also far easier to provide, and…
it('sends an email to the user', ...)
One I've been looking forward to for a while: native notifications on OSX!
Vendor lock-in.
Please don't fall into the Dunning-Kruger[0] trap by assuming a straightforward task is also easy to perform. These things may very well be complex and include aspects that are not immediately obvious. And even if they…
Feature-wise it's great but the .com version can be really slow. A simple git push of a few small commits took me about 50 seconds earlier this week.
> It's super powerful because word dropping cost nothing to produce and cost a lot to dismiss with proper arguments. Sounds like you may be referring to the Bullshit Asymmetry Priciple:…
This also reminds me of a talk by Maxim Februari at the most recent TEDx Amsterdam[0]. From the description: The infrastructure of connected things [..] imposes norms on citizens. Not in the form of written laws: the…
Git only started really clicking with me when I started thinking of most of my actions as graph building and traversals. It also helps to realize that for most intents and purposes, commits in git are immutable and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws Which contains (apart from the obvious Murphy's law and Occam's razor) such pearls as the Peter Principle, the Dunning-Kruger effect, and Hofstadter's Law. 20+ tabs…
Not specifically about this prediction, but he touched on the uncertainty factor in the latest Model Talk podcast episode: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-uncertainty-is-...
That one and the Christmas Special were the two episodes that kept me up at night.
What also floats on water?
To me this is a form of the Dunning-Kruger effect[0], where only somewhat informed people estimate the cost of a "0.1" (or POC) release without considering the famous "unknown unknowns" which may involve scaling,…
While luck isn't something you can completely control, it doesn't have to be entirely random either. I read this article a while back talking about a "luck surface area"[0], which you can expand, increasing your odds of…
I would love to see a general purpose API client that works similar to the Elasticsearch client Sense [0]. A simple, free-text scratchpad style client that allows for easy editing and firing of requests. Maybe it's hard…
> The PostststgreSQL project never fails to impress me. Let's see how many iterations we'll need for people to actually notice what was pointed out here ;)
Love that podcast. Really a shame he's stepping down from it.
Try writing YAML in combination with templating (such as in Salt). Because indentation means hierarchy, it's terrible. I'd much rather use JSON in such a context.
Yes. This is one of the main reasons I like to do most of my writing (which, admittedly, is not a whole lot) with Markdown.
I am from the Netherlands. Euthanasia is legal here, although strictly regulated (as I think it should be by the way, this is not the sort of choice that should be taken or approved lightly by anyone involved). Several…
I stand corrected.
Or he may have been diagnosed one or more years ago.
From personal experience, I can very much relate to and agree with this piece. My father went through a similar process: cancer (melanoma) – two years of treatment and coming to terms with the facts – euthanasia. As a…