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Intelligently decoupled, no. Needlessly abstract, yes. Many rockstars can't tell the difference.


The problem is they also leak a lot of just petty human stuff between government functionaries. The tool is blunter than Asange makes it out to be.


Software development of novel ideas is art, not manufacturing.


Mostly just AWS apps.


Yes, this is like saying here is my slim if statement library for PHP.


If all you are doing is opening an account then your registration docs alone are enough. There has to be more to this.


Climatologist in radio said in an interview the other day that sea level could rise 3cm to 10m in the next X years. Follow up question was, of course, "What happens at 10m sea rise." There is definitely some tendency all around to be hyperbolic.


It's not a social network design issue. It's a social issue of actual humans. Our society, currently, rewards outrage amd sensitivity as opposed to reason and the free exchange of ideas. We are essentially in a post enlightenment phase moving towards new forms of regressive authoritarianism.


Boo hoo. It's not that bad. Knuckle down and learn some shit. Crikey, some of us learned this stuff before a crowd sourced 90,000 word wiki and versioned online code repository was commonplace for a 200 line library. AND get off my lawn!!


You seem to be arguing semantics more than nuance. You aren't trying to say that practice doesn't matter. Right? Instead, it is debatable how much it differentiates the absolute best from those just below?

If so, I think the "No evidence" is a bit strong in this case. We may lack what would commonly be considered "proof" but there are good indications that practice matters.


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