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July 14, 2020 8:53 am

From lawrence on How I recovered from Lyme Disease: I fasted for two weeks, no food, just water

"In my experience, yes. I have made it common to do a 3 day fast a few times a year. Anecdotally, I would say i..."

July 13, 2020 3:07 pm

From Tes on How I recovered from Lyme Disease: I fasted for two weeks, no food, just water

"Thank you so much for sharing your story. I have recently been diagnosed with Lyme disease and want to treat i..."

May 31, 2020 9:03 am

From Gábor Hidvégi on What does PHP offer now?

"Dear Lawrence, I can agree with you partially, but not in the whole at all. I agree with you that even P..."

May 22, 2020 12:43 pm

From Frank Hileman on Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end

"Good article. However I hate to see so called "SOLID Principles" conflated with OOD. SOLID is a form of cargo ..."

May 22, 2020 10:29 am

From ByterBit on Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end

"The first time I looked closely at OOP I was astonished at the – idiocy, the absence of any usefulness, the ad..."

May 13, 2020 5:03 pm

From Just+An+Observer on His Girl Friday

"Closest match to the intensity of this is the movie "Twentieth Century" with John Barrymore and Carole Lombard..."

October 19, 2019 3:08 am

From Bernd Schatz on Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end

"I really enjoyed your article. But i can't understand the example with the interface. The example is reall..."

October 17, 2019 4:50 pm

From Anderson Nascimento Nunes on The conventional wisdom among social media companies is that you can’t put too much of the onus on users to personalize their own feeds

"Can't speak for anyone else, but on my feed reader: 5K bookmarked feeds, 50K regex on the killfile to filter o..."

October 9, 2019 3:08 pm

From Dan Campbell on Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end

"Object-Oriented Programming is Bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM..."

October 4, 2019 8:44 pm

From lawrence on My final post regarding the flaws of Docker / Kubernetes and their eco-system

"Gorgi Kosev, I am working to clean up some of my Packer/Terraform code so I can release it on Github, and then..."

October 4, 2019 5:14 pm

From Gorgi Kosev on My final post regarding the flaws of Docker / Kubernetes and their eco-system

"> Packer, sometimes with some Ansible. The combination of Packer and Terraform typically gives me what I ne..."

October 4, 2019 12:40 pm

From lawrence on My final post regarding the flaws of Docker / Kubernetes and their eco-system

"Gorgi Kosev, about this: "I would love if you could point out which VM based system makes it simpler and..."

October 4, 2019 7:31 am

From Gorgi Kosev on My final post regarding the flaws of Docker / Kubernetes and their eco-system

"I won't list anything concrete that you missed, because that will just give you ammunition to build the next a..."

October 4, 2019 1:39 am

From lawrence on My final post regarding the flaws of Docker / Kubernetes and their eco-system

"Gorgi Kosev, also, I don't think you understand what a "straw man argument" is. This is a definition from Wiki..."

October 4, 2019 1:23 am

From lawrence on Why I prefer dynamic-typing over static-typing: the speed of adapting to change

"Alistair Bayley, that is valid criticism. Still, in my essay on Object Oriented Programming, I did suggest the..."