On the contrary, in my experience such stateful APIs are a great use case for state machines. You just approach them differently. Instead of doing a blocking call, you introduce a "waiting for <something>" state. You…
The "Pale Blue Dot" photograph strikes the same chord for me. Carl Sagan's reflection on it can be especially moving [1]. [...] The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood…
There's a whole (short) chapter on changes in "Peopleware" [1]. I've just skimmed through it, here are the key points I've found: 1) Change is not a single step. It involves several stages, one of them being chaos. 2)…
I think it's only partially true. Technology products may get pretty depending on who is the consumer. Computers, phones and cars get nice exterior design, because the "general public" uses them, and they are, as you…
These radiators exist specifically to deal with power which has already been used. As stated in the article, the station needs a few kW of electrical power. Eventually all this power ends up as a waste heat energy.…
I second the OP. The "emotional" motivation has brought me quite far in my life. I always enjoyed learning. I got into programming because it was easily triggering the "reward circuits" in my brain. But as life follows,…
Nobody has mentioned it yet, so I feel obliged to link keyboard.io: http://www.keyboard.io/ They are currently in prototyping phase and they expect to go to Kickstarter this summer. I'm not from their team, I only want…
On the contrary, in my experience such stateful APIs are a great use case for state machines. You just approach them differently. Instead of doing a blocking call, you introduce a "waiting for <something>" state. You…
The "Pale Blue Dot" photograph strikes the same chord for me. Carl Sagan's reflection on it can be especially moving [1]. [...] The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood…
There's a whole (short) chapter on changes in "Peopleware" [1]. I've just skimmed through it, here are the key points I've found: 1) Change is not a single step. It involves several stages, one of them being chaos. 2)…
I think it's only partially true. Technology products may get pretty depending on who is the consumer. Computers, phones and cars get nice exterior design, because the "general public" uses them, and they are, as you…
These radiators exist specifically to deal with power which has already been used. As stated in the article, the station needs a few kW of electrical power. Eventually all this power ends up as a waste heat energy.…
I second the OP. The "emotional" motivation has brought me quite far in my life. I always enjoyed learning. I got into programming because it was easily triggering the "reward circuits" in my brain. But as life follows,…
Nobody has mentioned it yet, so I feel obliged to link keyboard.io: http://www.keyboard.io/ They are currently in prototyping phase and they expect to go to Kickstarter this summer. I'm not from their team, I only want…