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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by avs733 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @10:38PM (#15976229)
https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by wyager on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:06PM (#15976356)
This article bothers me because it implies that the path to correct code is simply to have code written by white-collar salarymen (as opposed to unkempt youth), and not improved formal methods.
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by avs733 on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:36PM (#15992952)
It doesn't imply there is a correct path to code. It implies that the best path to the goal for this program is to minimize the opportunity for exhaustion to be a variable.
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by andai on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:43AM (#15976919)
> That’s the culture: the on-board shuttle group produces grown-up software, and the way they do it is by being grown-ups. It may not be sexy, it may not be a coding ego-trip — but it is the future of software. When you’re ready to take the next step — when you have to write perfect software instead of software that’s just good enough — then it’s time to grow up.
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by gaius on Thursday December 21, 2017 @04:58AM (#15977625)
but it is the future of software

It's over two decades since that was written. I remember reading it when it was first published. Does it look much like the future?

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by andai on Saturday December 30, 2017 @11:10PM (#16039308)
It might not be the future of software, but it's the software of the future, in the sense that it's what enabled us to get to the moon, and will enable us to get to Mars.
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