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A colleague Bill Ryan brings up a great point. It is time to stop calling people resources. Humans are not resources, they are humans - complex things that differ from one another in very subtle and nuanced ways. Coal is a resource. Steel is a resource.
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This is an open question. I read Pickering's Foundations of F# - and while there is a new syntax, clearly a lineage from OCaml, something called whitespace awareness or somesuch that gives me nightmares (note, I am not the biggest Python fan either)
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There, I said it. I hope, finally, we can start to put the old Dynamic vs Static language schizm issue to bed. C# now is a dynamic language. Rubyists eat your heart out (and I mean that in good fun). Lets go down the line - things that make a language
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In Martin Fowler's recent post related to Microsoft and Ruby, I am confused. Fowler seems to describe the .net world as a bunch of disillusioned alpha geeks and corporate programmers under command and control regimes who are standing on their side
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Programmers to Blame for Hard To Use Software In one of the least informed articles of our young year, the author of the linked article assers that programmers are to blame for software that is “hard to use”. It starts out finding a problem
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