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I thought that book was horrible; one of the worse books on coding I've read.
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Let us see.
First came OOP. After 20 years, suddenly you start getting articles on why it is not the panacea it was touted to be.
Then came Agile. Some 20 years later, you start getting talks on why Agile doesn't work in large corporations.
Along came Clean Code and Clean Architecture. Now somebody is saying those emperors don't have any clothes on.
But the snake oil salesmen are not out of tricks yet.
Now you get functional programming. That ought to be good for another 20 years.
And you are all wondering -- nay, enraged -- how programs written in the 60-year-old COBOL still work flawlessly.*
Perhaps the programmers in the old days put a little bit of their heart and soul into their work.
And did not go around disparaging others who worked with different languages on differently architected machines.
But today we have programmers who believe that they are possessors of the Ultimate Truth -- as in Unix, C, etc -- and they are wondering why they are unable to develop good application systems and are grasping for the newest tools, methodologies, frameworks, etc.
Maybe a little humility would be in order.
*I can sit halfway around the world in India and withdraw cash from my account in a small regional US bank from an ATM belonging to a local Indian bank, all because those programs were written in COBOL, tested and put into production on mainframes in the early 1970s by programmers who made do with COBOL, IMS and CICS and not bitterly complain about how they didn't have access to awk, grep or pipes; or that they had to use the Waterfall methodology; or any number of other "blame the tool" excuses.
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 A good candidate for post of the month.
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I agree with the article.
There are good advices in SOLID, GoF design patterns, automated tests and so on but they should be taken as such, guidelines to keep in mind when implementing solutions.
Trying to be compliant at all the costs with strict rules is wrong. You should use common sense and eventually discuss with other peers what's the best solution.
Each project has its own needs and software is a mix of art, creativity and science. A developer should not obsess if to use this or that design pattern, number of lines per method or number of unit tests.
Do what you think makes really sense and improve code quality, compatibly with the deadlines.
I guess developers obessing with rules are not doing this job for passion but just for the salary.
On the othe hand "gurus" claiming they own the unique source of truth are often smart guys trying to avoid the hard work of writing code and make easy money becoming popular. What kind of super applications they wrote in the past? Probably not many, they are great at theory but nothing special at practice.
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Former Microsoft exec Steve Sinofsky says developers will flock to new Arm-based Mac – but it needs a touchscreen. I can't imagine why he's the ex-Windows boss
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Rings a bell[^] 
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Like any time you drive past a car dealership and all the mechanic's cars were made by someone else..
In front of the Holden (General Motors) dealership nearby, the mechanics all drive Toyotas, Subarus and Nissans. Not a single one of them drives a Holden..
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I can't see how a $3000 machine should be the future (and that prize includes only a 16" screen)...
It may be true if you speak about large companies (that the cost of the hardware not even mentioned there) - to which he may be used to, but today development rends are more free of those and powered by ideas made on a cheap PC, by singles or small on-line groups...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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ROFL!
Sour grapes, much?
This is the man who thought that touch was the future of everything and refused to listen to hundreds of thousands of Windows users who told him differently.
They were right, he was wrong, and he ceased to be a Microsoft employee because of it.
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Making some pretty ostentatious statements there. Let's see, Apple is going to Arm, things will be faster, Intel will fade away as well as Microsoft. How many times have we heard this? I'll make a prediction: Apple will roll out the new tech, it will cost even more than things do now, and it will have all new interfaces requiring all new peripherals.
Apply fans will flock to it, and corporate America will yawn and order more Dells.
The balls on this guy.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Significant obstacles will challenge quantum computing developers in the coming years, despite the technology's increasing importance as part of the broader wave of digital transformation, according to Lux Research. This headline brought to you by 10 years from now (and likely 10 years after that)
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but... is the headline alive or dead?
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More than 1 in 10 Airbnb guests have found hidden cameras in their rooms, according to a survey of 2,000 people conducted last year. "I always feel like somebody's watchin' me Is it just a dream?"
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As it wouldn't be enough with privacy and security issues, using them ethically correct... 
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Black hole collisions tend not to produce light by their very nature — you may catch gravitational waves, but that’s about it. Was it black light?
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[irony]
Be careful... someone could accuse you of being racist... 
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Open-source security specialist Snyk has released a new survey combining data on vulnerabilities in available packages with responses from developers and DevOps teams about how they handle the challenge this poses. Trusting in 'many eyes', can lead to many ayayays
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 +100000 internet points for you!
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This beta takes us on our first step into TypeScript 4.0, and while it brings a new major version, don’t fret – there are no substantially larger breaking changes than usual. For the types that like beta types
Variadic Tuple Types just sounds mystical to me.
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Have you ever accidentally deleted a file and wondered if you can get it back? It can sometimes prove to be a tricky process to recover deleted files on Windows. Peter Norton is back?
Good timing. I just needed to recover a few DLL files that got deleted somehow.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Good timing. I just needed to recover a few DLL files that got deleted somehow.
And drivers deleted by windows updates not?
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A simple VBScript may be enough to allow users to gain administrative privileges and bypass UAC entirely on Windows 10. To be safe, delete all those DLLs!
OK, please don't. It was a jo-
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Was not Windows 10 supposed to be the most secure and mega stable Windows ever?
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Passwords, bitcoin addresses and anything else in clipboards are free for the taking. Well, it is meant for copying, isn't it?
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