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December 12, 2018 7:50 pm

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

"Jussi Nurminen, thank you for writing. I believe you are correct, in the sense that Python 2.x had all the bas..."

December 12, 2018 5:13 am

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

"Hello! I've lately became a bit more suspicious of OO designs (including my own), so I read your original 2014..."

December 4, 2018 9:22 am

From lawrence on Docker is the dangerous gamble which we will regret

"GK, thank you for writing, but I don't understand what you mean when you write: "However, at that point you..."

December 4, 2018 7:14 am

From GK on Docker is the dangerous gamble which we will regret

"A development VM is a fine choice, provided that it comes with tools that make it just as easy to run commands..."

November 30, 2018 7:04 pm

From lawrence on Docker is the dangerous gamble which we will regret

"GK, thank you for writing. About this part: "That thing is writing portable shell scripts. The moment you n..."

November 30, 2018 1:41 pm

From GK on Docker is the dangerous gamble which we will regret

"The fat binaries article was nice, but full blown fat binaries are not really necessary. Whats needed is that ..."

November 27, 2018 1:13 am

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

"Andres Moreno, thank you for writing. Among other points to be said, I'll say I'm almost heart broken about Py..."

November 26, 2018 9:11 pm

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

"I am stunned! Why did it take so long to show that the Emperor has no clothes? I got bit by the Lisp bug early..."

November 23, 2018 8:24 am

From Just An Observer on Hillary Clinton keeps making the same mistakes

"Similar to the "Let's dump Nancy Pelosi, since the Republicans don't like her" talk we hear all the time...."

November 22, 2018 11:49 pm

From Free Speech Message Board on Zed Shaw is angry (abstraction and indirection)

"Americans used to think hippies were lazy fruits for dropping out during the Vietnam War, but maybe the hippie..."

November 19, 2018 5:13 pm

From Justin McGuire on To start with, tran­sient query surges are no longer a prob­lem?

"I think the idea is that a surge in traffic results in more messages on the queue, which can be handled at a n..."

November 19, 2018 12:45 pm

From J on Docker is the dangerous gamble which we will regret

"What are everyone's recommendations for fat binary bare metal deployments preferably with hooks into continuou..."

November 19, 2018 11:07 am

From lawrence on Has the Internet destroyed our ability to read?

"Gábor Hidvégi, I agree with "too many pieces of information" especially small pieces of information. Most of t..."

November 19, 2018 10:50 am

From Gábor Hidvégi on Has the Internet destroyed our ability to read?

"The problem is that too many pieces of information reaches us (thanks mostly to the internet), and our brain a..."

November 19, 2018 10:19 am

From Gábor Hidvégi on What's wrong with Hacker News

"I think the problem is broader: web 2.0 failed. One part of Web 2.0 was about "user content", everyone is c..."