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Thought-provoking essay. I can see how responsibility and ownership are important to help identify, motivate and reward the high achievers (and conversely, identify and get rid of the "dead wood"). But I can also see how collaboration and the dilution of responsibility and ownership helps better integrate junior members who might otherwise stay on the sidelines for longer than they should. There's also the issue of personnel turnover: what happens if the one person who is responsible for a major piece of a project leaves the company? A collaborative setting is more resilient to churn. There are trade-offs, and possibly a middle ground to be found.

A couple of books were helpful to me, both by Venkat Subramaniam and published by Pragmatic Programmers:

- Functional Programming in Java

- Cruising Along With Java (this covers everything else that is "new" other than functional programming)

I imagine you could use AI as well to create a "squash prompt", but verifying using diff that the "squash commit" results in the same code.

This looks nice! Wish they had a no-credit-card-required version for educational purposes. For the course I teach we use Spring Boot, and life was good with Heroku till they discontinued the no-credit-card version, and then the only choice we had (with support for Spring Boot) was to move over to Azure, which works but is a bit overkill and complicated for our purposes. I guess we could just use Docker and then many more platform would become available, but I'd rather not add one more step to the pipeline if possible.

So it's still a BSOD!

Yeah, it's a case of "don't let the perfect be the enemy of good". The conservative stance is happy with the status quo. The progressive stance isn't. We probably need a bit of both. Finding the right balance being key.

Looks like he removed the paywall for this article? I was able to read the whole thing, and I'm not subscriber.

Maybe the difference between the eval of the best move vs the next one(s)? An "only move" situation would be more risky than when you have a choice between many good moves.

Not the OP but I have tried to reduce my sugar intake, I'm walking more than before, and I still basically gain half a pound every year. I'd lose some weight for a few days, and gain it all back on the one day I'm a bad boy. It seems like there's an internal dial that decides what my weight is supposed to be, no matter how much I fight it. And the dial adds half a pound every year. I guess the dial is my metabolism as I age.

But now it's also apparently larger! I'm sure I'm not the only person hoping for an Apple Watch that is reasonably thin and small.