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On Code etc.: The Haskell / Snap ecosystem is as productive (or more) than Ruby/Rails.

The number one productivity improvement is a smart strong type system. This is less of an issue for small projects, but as soon as you have at least a few thousand lines of code, adding new features or refactoring inevitably involves changes to multiple parts of the codebase. Having a compiler that will tell you all the places that you need to change things is an amazing productivity booster…

11 May 2012 • reblog: dbpatterson

(via Debtris)

26 April 2012

(via Wadler’s Blog: If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product)

26 April 2012

… failure is penalized. But without trial and error, there is no innovation.

— Evolving Excellence: The Importance of the Knowledge Distillery

24 April 2012

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision

— Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

19 March 2012

The main difference as I see it is that Scala understands itself foremost as a modern object-oriented language in which you also can do functional programming. The way I read F# is that it sees itself foremost as a functional language that also supports the .NET object model.

— InfoQ: Martin Odersky on Typesafe Stack and the Future of Scala

14 March 2012

We don’t have time to do it over so we have to spend the time to do it right. In software programming only the amateur’s approach rewards speed over long-term usability.

— Seth’s Blog: The extraordinary software development manager

14 March 2012

trait NoStackTrace extends Throwable { override def fillInStackTrace(): Throwable = if (NoStackTrace.noSuppression) super.fillInStackTrace() else this }

object NoStackTrace { final val noSuppression = sys.SystemProperties.noTraceSupression.value}

— src/library/scala/util/control/NoStackTrace.scala at master from scala/scala - GitHub

26 February 2012

So the decline of manufacturing in a region sets off a chain reaction. Once manufacturing is outsourced, process-engineering expertise can’t be maintained, since it depends on daily interactions with manufacturing.

— Why Amazon Can’t Make A Kindle In the USA - Forbes

24 February 2012

that the only thing harder than getting a new idea into a military mind is to get an old one out.

— An elusive command philosophy and a different command culture - By Tom Ricks | The Best Defense

24 February 2012