But the thing that’s unusual about good scientists is that while they’re doing whatever they’re doing, they’re not so sure of themselves as others usually are. They can live with steady doubt, think “maybe it’s so” and act on that, all the time knowing it’s only “maybe.” Many people find that difficult; they think it means detachment or coldness. It’s not coldness! It’s a much deeper and warmer understanding, and it means you can be digging somewhere where you’re temporarily convinced you’ll find the answer, and somebody comes up and says, “Have you seen what they’re coming up with over there?” and you look up and say “Jeez! I’m in the wrong place!”
It makes me happy whenever I read quotes like this of Feynman's.
Not a very rigorous test - but I just applied this to one of our (very) large angular 1.x apps and it had a consistent 20-30% reduction in profiled execution time across the couple of test interactions I did.
That said, I'm not sure it made much perceptible difference as the app already performed adequately and the reduction is amortized across all of the interactions the user makes.
As with the shirt example in the original article, the cost of labour (i.e. paying people for their time) represents the majority of the cost in building a house. The other items you list are using cheaper overseas labour in their construction, whereas if you're building a house by definition you need to pay local craftspeople for their time. Also due to their physical size, houses require lots of people to put together (i.e. the time is in some sense proportional to size of the item being constructed).
Am I right in saying that the complaints with btrfs in CoreOS are specifically around its use in conjunction with Docker?
(Interested as I'm thinking about building a homebrew NAS/general purpose server w/ btrfs, there's a lot of outdated info on btrfs but I was getting the impresssion that it's now a pretty stable and useable filesystem)
I find these landing pages that don't let me even have a peek at the actual product, so they can funnel me down the "Try now for free path" really irritating.
Netbeans also has a local history recording feature which is integrated pretty well alongside the git/vcs features (just hit history on any file and see a log of all your local changes intermingled with the committed versions).
There's nothing in the parent comment that seems unreasonable to me. You're putting a spin on it that doesn't exist.
The content of Quora today is what it is. The Internet Archive has no agenda for misrepresenting the content of any site. They don't want "records to be" anything other than what is reality now, tomorrow and the in the future.
The Archive's stance is perfectly reasonable. You can't arbitrarily go back in time and remove content that existed at the time, otherwise it's not a historical record.
So you can opt-out totally or be included in the archive's records, it's that simple.
I think you used the wrong word - IMO Uncle Bobisms often show a lack of practical pragmatism. The vibe I usually get from listening to him is along the lines of... "if everyone just did things the right way then we wouldn't have all these problems", which is firstly, not a realistic point of view, because there is no reality where every developer on a team is going to do everything the same way, let alone one person's idea of the "the right way", and secondly it's just unprovable conjecture that these things would solve all our problems in the first place.
I'd rather listen to people with a proven track record for shipping great software and a history of reasoned pragmatism regarding techniques and methodology.
It makes me happy whenever I read quotes like this of Feynman's.