I'm not even sure why we're discussing this when the post is mostly a strawman. There isn't any example given for "what makes it so goddamn hard to reason about SGML documents". If I understand the idea, he is…
Millennials: doing whatever it takes to get your attention since 1982.
Sorry to nitpick, but docx is a file format, and not even a particularly original idea for a file format (ODF does it without riling RMS). In other words, you might also say: "[Oracle] is a proprietary ecosystem where…
I agree with everything up to "A way to monetize your services through varying account limits and priority lanes". This is completely accidental and I can only imagine someone on the finance team suggesting that the…
I totally agree if scalability also implies flexibility. I've seen too many cases where a developer will over-engineer something for flexibility when it is never, ever going to be necessary. For example, you will never,…
LMAO!!1 We needed more people like you around to save the newspapers. Facts and opinions? On video? No thanks.
I agree: at best, this is data in search of a theory; at worst, it is just confirmation bias. However, I don't think the data is interesting as anything more than cocktail chatter. Is it interesting to find the average…
I up-voted your response; hopefully it helps. As you pointed out, I don't think the issue here is the relationship between college football and professional football although nearly every other response was about the…
Thank you Snowflake for pointing to yourself as an argument against an obvious fallacy. Too bad you also took the opportunity to post another one.
I might be in the minority here, but these hackathons are a waste of time for exceptional talent; like asking a Heisman trophy winner to compete in Battle of the Network Stars. These rising stars shouldn't be competing…
Wait. Why did anyone continue reading that post after the thoroughly inaccurate description of Chris Cooper's character? The character is not homophobic: he is driven to murder by the shame and guilt of his repressed…
Please stop using square or sqrt or recur/iter as examples of functional programming. It's as bad as every "Hello World" println from new imperative languages that seem to pop up everyday. And please stop suggesting…
Which one are you? The problem with the magical numbers and hand waving is that there is a 80% chance that the author is one of the mediocre. Would you take this advice from someone who is mediocre?
I think we're all missing the point; namely, the assumption of Mr. Friedman’s rank. Suppose that Mr. Friedman is above average, then the suggestions in this opinion piece are plausible and should demand our sincere…
FTW. At least we know who in this thread is the sectarian. Only an idiot would draw an analogy between their private personification of evil and an entire group of people. A rose by any other name is a damn racist.
I'm not even sure why we're discussing this when the post is mostly a strawman. There isn't any example given for "what makes it so goddamn hard to reason about SGML documents". If I understand the idea, he is…
Millennials: doing whatever it takes to get your attention since 1982.
Sorry to nitpick, but docx is a file format, and not even a particularly original idea for a file format (ODF does it without riling RMS). In other words, you might also say: "[Oracle] is a proprietary ecosystem where…
I agree with everything up to "A way to monetize your services through varying account limits and priority lanes". This is completely accidental and I can only imagine someone on the finance team suggesting that the…
I totally agree if scalability also implies flexibility. I've seen too many cases where a developer will over-engineer something for flexibility when it is never, ever going to be necessary. For example, you will never,…
LMAO!!1 We needed more people like you around to save the newspapers. Facts and opinions? On video? No thanks.
I agree: at best, this is data in search of a theory; at worst, it is just confirmation bias. However, I don't think the data is interesting as anything more than cocktail chatter. Is it interesting to find the average…
I up-voted your response; hopefully it helps. As you pointed out, I don't think the issue here is the relationship between college football and professional football although nearly every other response was about the…
Thank you Snowflake for pointing to yourself as an argument against an obvious fallacy. Too bad you also took the opportunity to post another one.
I might be in the minority here, but these hackathons are a waste of time for exceptional talent; like asking a Heisman trophy winner to compete in Battle of the Network Stars. These rising stars shouldn't be competing…
Wait. Why did anyone continue reading that post after the thoroughly inaccurate description of Chris Cooper's character? The character is not homophobic: he is driven to murder by the shame and guilt of his repressed…
Please stop using square or sqrt or recur/iter as examples of functional programming. It's as bad as every "Hello World" println from new imperative languages that seem to pop up everyday. And please stop suggesting…
Which one are you? The problem with the magical numbers and hand waving is that there is a 80% chance that the author is one of the mediocre. Would you take this advice from someone who is mediocre?
I think we're all missing the point; namely, the assumption of Mr. Friedman’s rank. Suppose that Mr. Friedman is above average, then the suggestions in this opinion piece are plausible and should demand our sincere…
FTW. At least we know who in this thread is the sectarian. Only an idiot would draw an analogy between their private personification of evil and an entire group of people. A rose by any other name is a damn racist.