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[W]hen solving larger issues we have a higher tolerance for technical debt… That said, we probably shouldn’t throw caution to the wind and take on unlimited debt because we’re still paying back our last emergency loan. I know Aaron [Patterson] said that features are too big to fail. There’s nobody actually going to bail us out, though. Later: Your tolerance for debt is “features now + features later” over “cost now + maintenance. [Read More]

via Jeff Atwood, in reply to this: This is an honest question: Having been in IT and software development for over a decade, I have never encountered a problem that required me to look at the source code. As such, I’ve never really understood the open source movement. I can’t imagine a scenario where the software I am using, the same software used by hundreds of thousands of others, would be broken to the point where I had to go into the source and fix it. [Read More]

Javascript is the New Basic

Brandon Bloom

It’s the C of the web. The to-JS languages are lining up to become the C++ of the web.

Isaac Schlueter

Brendan Eich, “The State of JavaScript,” Strange Loop 2012.

The way you handle a political problem is to find the technical problem at its root and solve that instead. Then, the political problem will evaporate.

Stroustrup, “The C Family of Languages: Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, and James Gosling,” Java Report, 5(7), July 2000.

Einleitung, oder Sonnenaufgang. Richard Strauss, 1896.

I haven’t been this keen on a technology since github.