Supporting old browsers is an investment. There might be some return thereof and you even might break-even, but that doesn’t mean that this was the best investment you could have made.
Architecture
You know what architecture really is? It’s the art of drawing lines. With the interesting rule that once you have drawn the lines, all the dependencies that cross that line go in the same direction.
A good architecture allows major decisions to be deferred … A good architecture maximizes the number of decisions not made.
That rot will slow you down. It will slow the whole team down.
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Salt of the Earth (1974)
The company folded in July 1975, due to unpaid federal and state taxes amounting to $62,000: the Internal Revenue Service padlocked the offices and auctioned off all assets. Many of the label’s master tapes are missing and presumed destroyed.
Esmerelda's Imagination
translation misses idiom
Pipes
And the next morning we had this orgy of one-liners.
Limitations
Actors … an idea that really dates to 1972, when people were programming with flint tools. And so it takes a long time. The limitation here isn’t the technology, the limitation is the people.
Gilad Bracha, GOTO Aarhus 2012.