benfle

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The Problem with User Stories(medium.com)
1 points by benfle 6y ago|0 comments
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by benfle 7y ago
Is it a good idea to base your GraphQL schema on your database schema? Isn't the point of GraphQL to decouple your interface (who should not break) from your backend implementation details?
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by benfle 8y ago
Allen Wirfs-Brock summarizes it perfectly: https://twitter.com/awbjs/status/1107678004757430272
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by benfle 8y ago
I don't see those quotes as contradicting Kay's point about data. My interpretation of what Torvalds and Pike are saying is that we should spend time designing our programs to find the right way to think about our problems. And th
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by benfle 9y ago
Aren't we lucky to have stumbled upon the "correct tool for the job" at our first attempt.
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by benfle 9y ago
If "age" is an important property in your system shared among different kinds of entities then you need to have an Interface or a Protocol to retrieve the age of an entity. The same way you would create a keyword in Clojure to rep
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by benfle 9y ago
I don't see the difference between sending a Person instance and sending a map of keywords about a person. The coupling is the same.
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by benfle 9y ago
I think Rich is talking more about data structures than data abstractions here. In particular, he's saying that he favors sound data models (RDF, datalog, relational) to manipulate information in our programs over specific data structu
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by benfle 9y ago
Other things that occur both naturally and in simulations: revenge, jealousy, violence, territoriality, oligarchy, thumb sucking...
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by benfle 9y ago
The author is obviously more interested in telling entertaining stories (in the boardroom) than telling the truth. Tufte is not only about data viz. and powerpoint bashing. Integrity is central to his work. I would not trust someone who pre
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by benfle 14y ago
I had the exact same reaction. It is unfortunate Chris didn't take time to respond to your comment... It is always interesting to see different object systems being used. I just hope we will get a honest review of it in a few months after i
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by benfle 14y ago
That's effectively unfortunate to compare your design to OOP because we tend to have different opinions of what OOP is. If you see OOP simply as message passing and polymorphism then your "all-e" and "renderer" functions just reimplement th
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by benfle 15y ago
What would be very interesting to talk about (instead of entering into the details of an innocent analogy) is a toolkit that would make very easy to create new higher level languages on top of JavaScript. Unfortunately, JavaScript and its V
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by benfle 15y ago
How complex would it be to execute a javascript function callback against each published document on the hub instead of a query and return the document to the subscriber if the function returns true?