@stlpublicradio @kdhx @STLonAir My soul is crushed for my favorite radio station. The board's apparent mismanagement has grown into a conflagration of petty retaliation, firing over a dozen volunteer DJs. In the meantime the STL music community loses our outlet for diverse, independent music.
Imagine you find a sock and a fork on a table: you will react very differently if it is in your home vs. in a museum. Context matters.
-- Venkat Subramaniam #nfjs
The DRY principle is essentially: avoid duplication of effort.
This is beyond avoiding code duplication.
If your team does manual testing,
If your team does manual deployment,
this is a violation of the DRY principle.
-- Venkat Subramaniam #nfjs
Extensibility [of code] requires the ability to anticipate really well. If we anticipate poorly, we don't get extensibility, instead we get unnecessary complexity.
-- Venkat Subramaniam #nfjs
Don't ask, "Is this code fast?"
Ask, "Is the performance of this code adequate?"
That leads you to define, "How fast should it be?"
-- Venkat Subramaniam #nfjs
Attending No Fluff Just Stuff, Gateway Software Symposium today and tomorrow. Always a great tech conference. If you are attending look for the ridiculously handsome bearded guy in the OCI hoodie and say, "hi!"
#nfjs