Links tagged “opinion”
77 links, newest first.
paulgraham.com
Essay arguing that companies working in less mainstream languages such as Python attract better programmers, since only enthusiasts learn them by choice.
paulgraham.com
Essay taking apart sixteen common reasons people give for not founding a company, backed by Y Combinator's early success-rate data.
blog.codinghorror.com
Post holding up the playful Beagle Bros software of the Apple II era as a model for interactive, animated textbooks on the web.
blog.samaltman.com
Argues that high startup valuations reflect low interest rates, more capital competing for deals and more real opportunities rather than a bubble.
lucumr.pocoo.org
Licensing in a Post Copyright World #license - http://t.co/qLpYje1bFL
joelonsoftware.com
Victory Lap for Ask Patents http://t.co/Xoi3oWKkNH
gojko.net
Redefining software quality #management - http://t.co/egeGAxkQ
syntax-k.de
The Go programming language is actually cooler than I had previously thought http://t.co/cBKXLtBz
geek-directeur-technique.com
RT @tetue: documenter, réfléchir avant de coder : http://t.co/iKfLWVIX
deconstructingitsm.wordpress.com
Argues that what IT organisations actually need is a configuration management policy and a configuration authority, not a CMDB product.
romain.dorgueil.net
Argues that business logic belongs in a model layer acting as a facade, not in controller methods, and that duplicated logic must be refactored the moment it appears.
tech.blog.aknin.name
Argues that mailing lists cannot carry large open-source design debates, and sketches a code-review-like tool structuring positions, arguments and who holds them.
steve.yegge.googlepages.com
ma-like trance whenever I tried to skim through
fuhm.net
Argues that Python's super() is a trap in multiple-inheritance hierarchies and that explicit superclass calls are usually the safer choice.
symfonylab.com
Short opinion post weighing whether to commit to Symfony or keep shopping around the other PHP frameworks.
