I recently read The Book of Five Rings (Miyamoto Musashi, 1645) and I found the teaching style quite interesting. Miyamoto shares a bunch of lessons on sword combat. He was a samurai who won over 60 duels. Most of the lessons in the book describe the structure of the lesson,

RT @HeadysFarm: It’s incredibly disappointing to find a crop you have been tending to all year, trashed just before harvest! How can people….

Marx did this. (Book is Meaning by Michael Polanyi)

Board games disproportionately favour night owls over morning larks and literally nobody is talking about it.

Excerpt from an essay I’ve started writing:. Software engineers are often encouraged to make decisions that favour results now over results later. This focus on fast delivery and rapid iteration is often beneficial, in a business sense, because it allows the business to deliver.

* understood experientially.

Peak breakfast. The white stuff is a cheese that I can only seem to find in Egypt. It’s just milk and rennet. It’s delicious.

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What’s your definition of legacy code?.

I dislike the term pragmatism as it’s used in software. It’s more of a feeling than a well rationalised argument, but the more I hear it, the more it brushes against my intuition. For example, how many rushed, ill-conceived ideas have become established concepts in a software.

Trump is absolutely right about this. The UK position on oil is absurd.

Great read on OOP and object behaviour in contexts. FWIW, I think I would probably opt for the specialised classes rather than the DSL approach in these examples provided, assuming the problem domain called for that level of separation.

I really am convinced that AI is the future. I was able to make this in a few seconds, without putting my drink down.

Impatience is the enemy of barbecue.

RT @JamesMelville: Class. #Lions2025

I’m starting to realise that a person’s preferences, in terms of programming styles, paradigms, and concepts, may be affected by their philosophical orientation; or at least the philosophical orientation of the social context they were raised in. I would be curious to know how.

RT @MorriceGavin: @rockatanescu Ive seen the thumbnail for this talk, but never had the time to watch it. Not having seen it yet, this has….

I’m realising more and more that encapsulation is one of the most important aspects of any large software project, and the most abused in Rails apps.