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100% utilization turns freeways—and software teams—into parking lots. Jim Holmes
100% utilization turns freeways—and software teams—into parking lots. Jim Holmes
So it is with deep sadness that I observe the current culture of intensity in the tech industry. Dustin Moskovitz
The end of life for software should be stability, not bitrot, and I’d like a way to fix that. David R. MacIver
My goal in advocating that everyone learn such a language is to make sure that the magic is destroyed. Robert C. Martin
If you haven’t done it before–if you haven’t built something close to this before–then all bets are off. James Hague
…basically we’ve built an industry on free labour, and we’ve concluded that we’d much rather make people work for free in their spare time to produce adequate software and shame…
Show off your mistakes, your bad code, your misunderstandings to reclaim the idea that programmers are nothing more than human. The Power of Drafts
New tools, in turn, alter the tasks for which they were designed, indeed alter the situations in which the tasks occur and even the conditions that cause people to want…
it’s important to be considerate of how many things in your language will be strange for your target audience, because if you put too many strange things in, they won’t…
Classes are not essential to object thinking, merely a convenience. David West