l8again

Looking at your resume, I am curious how you are intimately familiar with XP. Seems like it should be before your time.

In my first semester as a freshman in an American university, I took a quiz in the Calculus class that had a question based on American football. Having never played the sports or even knowing the rules all that well, I aced the exam.

Yes, it is not that hard to keep the proprietary business logic separate from the system design.

I am looking at this and thinking of the systems we build (in software) and what we can learn from the sublime postal system.

This isn't about desktop vs web apps. Plenty of desktop apps (or mobile apps) use a centrally located database server side. So, #3 (synchronize between clients) is about merging data using CRDTs in a distributed manner without requiring a centrally located database.

A better way to think about it is Google Docs (as a desktop app or web app really doesn't matter), and it offers real-time collaboration on a single doc between users without using a centrally located database.

Amazon has its own Uber, own fulfillment service down to monitoring tools that are built in house. So, not sure if it's a change in their "buy vs build" strategy or there's a more business play here to gain traction in the global markets?

In the same vein, I think the industry is ripe for "smart-less" TVs. Reduce the cost, and take all the smarts out of it. Don't even need wifi. Apple TV, roku, chromecast - enough good options out there that there's really no need for your TV to come built in with any apps or smart features.

I wish the author had done a comparison for Java apps using JLink that generates a custom Java runtime image that contains only the platform modules that are required for a given application, and if that makes a difference.

While that is true, it isn't a problem inherently with comments.

I always wondered if the "useless comment" comment was really a way of bragging employed by experienced programmers (or their wannabes). Why is it a burden on anyone? Most IDE clearly highlight the comments so you can tune it out. Also, even if it is obvious, at least when a bug presents itself, you don't have to spend much time figuring out the intention of the author and if it is indeed a bug or by design.

Paul Graham is a good writer - I give him that. But this piece can't be taken seriously. Please don't go interrupting everybody in meetings to show that you are intellectually superior.

Haven't looked at Jolie closely, but I am very well-versed in gRPC. Can someone give a quick comparison between the two or point me to a good resource that compares the advantages of Jolie over gRPC or vice-versa?

I don't know - why do Californians have sky-high everything?

If this will make Microsoft Office (specifically powerpoint) web client usable, then I will gladly pay $30 per month.

Also, I wonder how can we realistically implement this for SaaS?