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I find the criticism of cprop a bit bizarre. Configurations of apps have many use cases. Some people package config files with the app on the classpath others use fs. Some do a combination of the two. Others use environment variables. Any practical configuration lib should be able to handle these use cases if the need arises.

The fact that the author finds it odd that cprop parses edn and calls it "type coercion" like it's a negative is strange. What would the author prefer? max-connections-num to be a string? If you want strings put quotes around the values.

> This is backpressure: your home-grown configuration system resists being extended, and it’s a good thing.

Or there's the real world where you need to address a business concern to get things working where someone asks a reasonable request to be able to override a setting with an environment variable. Luckily your configuration library already handles this and you can go back to doing interesting work instead of bikeshedding your home-grown system that resists change.

Many people in the tech industry don't realize the tradeoffs they are making by participating on FB. This is to say nothing of the nontechnical crowd who make up the overwhelming majority of the site.

My wish is that mainstream news media would cover these issues. It'd be great if most of FB's users thought about the troves of personal info that they are providing not just about themselves but their friends as well.

Because Mickey Mouse is an idea while a farm is not. Claiming ownership of metaphysical concepts like Mickey Mouse is very different from claiming ownership of something that's scarce and rivalrous such as the farm.