That is - IMO - what critical thinking is meant to be … thinking about alternative explanations and evaluating their viability or probability.
Unfortunately a lot of people use the term “critical thinking” as just another way to rationalize why they are against something, without actually weighing the options.
Dark humor is like food… not everybody gets it.
Where comments are useful most is in explaining why the implementation is as it is. Otherwise smart ass (your future self) will come along, rewrite it just to realize there was indeed a reason for the former implementation.
There’s nothing wrong with UDP. At least not that I know of.
So if I put a movement sensor that triggers a light in front of a jewish household, they couldn’t leave on sabbath because their movement would trigger a fire?
One problem is that they need to put a price tag and therefore a timeline on such a project. Due to the complexity and the many unknown unknowns in theses decades worth of accumulated technical debts, no one can properly estimate that. And so these projects never get off and typically die during planning/evaluation when both numbers (cost and time) climb higher and higher the longer people think about it.
IMO a solution would be to do it iteratively with a small team and just finish whenever. Upside: you have people who know the system inside-out at hand all the time should something come up. Downside of course is that you have effectively no meaningful reporting on when this thing is finished.
It only needs to work long enough for the current management to cash in on their savings. Then it’s their successors problem.
Or Battlestar Galactica. Create a new species, make them humanoid, make them sentient, and then treat them like shit. Great.
Nah, I prefer to treat my math problems like climate change. With denial.
I have a few projects where parts are Java, parts are Go and parts are C. Having that in a single workspace can be convenient.
If it was real, the walls would be glass and there would be spectators.
clion is also strictly separated.
IDEA isn’t Java-only. Most of the other languages are available as plugins. IDEA is typically the go-to IDE for multilanguage projects.
If you run it in old-school CGI mode, no, because each request would spawn a new process. But that’s nowhere near state-of-the-art. So typically you would still have a long-running process somewhere that could manage a connection pool. No idea if it does, though. Can’t imagine that it wouldn’t, however, since PHP would be slaughtered in benchmarks if there was no way to keep connections (or pools) open across requests.
Anything under like 100ms load is instant to the user, especially a page load.
True, but it accumulates. Every ms I save on templating I can “waste” on I/O, DB, upstream service calls, etc.
For a bit of templating? Yes! What drives response times up is typically the database or some RPC, both of which are out of control of PHP, so I assume these were not factored in (because PHP can’t win anything there in a comparison).
LP is probably very audit-friendly … (in regards to its stored data).
I always love the many little implications of this genius “everything is a file”-architecture. Thank you Ken Thompson.
Also new people are still motivated to change stuff. They are not yet worn down by bureaucracy.