Links tagged “opinion”
77 links, newest first.
eev.ee
Practical case for testing aimed at people who dislike it, arguing for a friendly framework like pytest, tests over what you already check by hand, and fast reliable runs.
linux-toys.com
Critique of the Docker 1.12 release, arguing that Swarm mode and its multi-host networking were marketed before they worked reliably.
pmarchive.com
Part 5 of the Pmarca Guide to Startups: why big-company decisions are unpredictable, and why a startup should never stake its survival on landing one such deal.
glyph.twistedmatrix.com
An argument that asyncio does not make Twisted obsolete, since Twisted is a full application platform where asyncio is only an event-loop kernel.
ben-evans.com
Sixteen theses on the state of mobile: platform competition between Apple and Google, computing moving to the phone, and where IoT, cars and wearables fit.
medium.com
Argues that Tape's minimal, dependency-free assertions produce better unit tests than the larger feature surface of Mocha or Jasmine.
sirupsen.com
A 2015 list of ten obstacles — image building, logging, filesystem reliability — that kept Docker from succeeding widely in production.
martinfowler.com
Argues that microservices carry a productivity premium that only pays off once a system is too complex to manage as a monolith.
martinfowler.com
Argues that new projects should start as a monolith and split into microservices only once the service boundaries are actually understood.
lwn.net
Coverage of Jacob Kaplan-Moss's PyCon 2015 keynote, which argues that programming ability is normally distributed rather than split between rockstars and incompetents.
talkingquickly.co.uk
Sixty-three pieces of startup advice a founder would give his younger self, on shipping, customer development, team and business fundamentals.
medium.com
Défend l’idée que l’économie collaborative prolonge le mutualisme du XIXe siècle, rendu possible par des technologies qui abaissent les coûts de transaction.
paulgraham.com
Essay arguing that early startups have to recruit users by hand and give unscalable personal service instead of waiting for organic growth.
paulgraham.com
Notes for a 2001 MIT panel on programming language design, arguing languages should target good programmers and favour brevity and user control.
paulgraham.com
Essay separating procrastination on errands, which frees time for work that matters, from avoiding real work altogether.
paulgraham.com
Essay on where startup ideas come from, arguing they are questions refined by building and by working with capable friends, not finished inventions.
paulgraham.com
Thirteen condensed rules for running a startup, from picking good cofounders to making a few users very happy rather than many users mildly so.
paulgraham.com
Eighteen common ways startups fail, from founding alone to mismanaging investors, all of which reduce to not making something users want.
paulgraham.com
Seven lessons founders resist learning, among them releasing early, shipping constantly, and fearing other startups rather than established companies.
