Don't fret, this just illustrates the fact that immutable data and algebraic data types are easier to have in Java now. Still that's very good things to see spread in many languages.
A response to "The Hunt for the Missing Data Type" article. There are indeed potential solutions, but they're not really used/usable in the industry right now. Maybe tomorrow.
Looks like an interesting approach for a new family of development forges. Fully distributed and peer to peer, I wonder if it'll pick up.
This was only a matter of time before we'd see such a move. This doesn't bode well for things like ZLUDA.
Good reminder that git worktrees exist. They definitely come in handy sometimes.
Indeed, graphs are peculiar beasts. When dealing with graph related problems there are so many choices to make that it's hard or impossible to come up with a generic solution.
This is an important request. It has safety implications. It is non-binding request of course, but the insurance companies pay attention to it and so could have an impact.
This is a nice ruling about GPL violation in France. Gives some more weight to the GPL.
Going back on the history of the introduction of version control in software engineering and how Git ended up so dominant. We often forget there was a time before Git.
A bit of a high level view on technical debt. There's a couple of interesting insights though. In particular the lack of good metrics to evaluate technical debt... and the fact that it's probably about "both the present state and the possible state" of the code base. So it's very much linked to the human cognition in order to conceive the "ideal state".
Nice set of tricks (might also involve Javascript, not only CSS) when you need to format web content for printing.
This is one of the main problems with using those generative models as currently provided. It's time for the legislators to step up, we can't let a couple of players hoard energy and water for themselves.
This is a good explanation of why you should limit your use of mocks. It also highlights some of the alternatives.
This is great news, more scientific papers from the past decades will be accessible to everyone.
We're collectively still failing at handling leap days properly it seems.
Interesting outcome from those experiments. Interesting insights coming from the practices the companies put in place. The failures also bring interesting information.
Looks like enough people complained that they had to change course. Good, until the next bad move...
A few points to take with a pinch of salt, especially regarding the proposed solutions. Still it makes a very good point that most transformation failures toward agile organizations are due to lack of trust and the swapping of one bureaucracy for another.
Good summary of all the "fake agile" practice one can see. Without enough trust it's not possible to put in place an agile organization.
The HDMI Forum is really an annoying body to say the least... they lack so much transparency.