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Hey, thanks Matt for providing a well lit path to getting things done on the Internet before anyone knew what they were doing.

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I can't plus this enough. I hired a unicorn business minded, brilliant, can solve any software engineering or UI/UX problem engineer who happened to have a predilection for functional programming.

I found out that unicorns are unicorns.

Yes you’re right. I guess I was mostly trying to underscore the point you’re making here by being a smidge provocative. +1.

> Work with honest, intelligent people

This is good advice that’s well intentioned, but (sorry), it can be interpreted as elitist, and in a way that’s detrimental to the reader.

I am no way suggesting that this is the intention or belief of the parent, but while I’ve got more miles on my odometer than I’d prefer, they’ve informed me that “reasonable” is better than “intelligent.”

My god how I’ve found that working with reasonable people is so much healthier, more productive and rewarding than working with the unreasonable* intelligent folks.

*I fully grant to my current and former colleagues, friends and associates that I have been irredeemably unreasonable any number of times. Consider this a small thanks :).

Scientific American is still in print. I guess I don’t know for how long, but I love it.

And here I thought burn out was the inability to do something. Learn something new every day!

I had no idea Haynes was doing this. Hysterical and wonderful. Thank you!

I suppose I’m a grey beard (in industry is 96ish) and I mean, it’s fine as a backend language in so far as dynamically (or even loosely) typed languages go. It’s just as easy (or hard) to write modular well tested code as in any number of other languages in wide use for backend services, in my XP.

> I don't have any particular answers to why string templating has been enduringly popular so far (although I can come up with theories, including that string templating is naturally reusable to other contexts, such as plain text)

My hunch is that it’s for the same reason folks love other plaintext formats: they’re readable and easily manipulated.

HTML has the added upside that it’s pretty straightforward for humans to write, which whether one likes it or not is why some folks would rather not learn some else’s DSL for generating it.

Btw, I suspect there’s a similar division in the write your own SQL vs ORM/linq world.

My tactic is to meditate on the fact that there is always someone better than me at some thing that I’m doing at some point in time.

Learned this lesson mostly from sports, fwiw.

does this count as an example of the Two (AI) Generals' Problem?