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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2018
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      A thread on HN about bad code in legacy projects both makes me think how little we've learned as a discipline over the years and, honestly, how little credit we give ourselves for some pretty major innovations. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442637 …

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2018
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      Fun going down this list and thinking: "Hmm, plausible at a well-run modern software shop", "Hmm, possible, but requires implausible tradeoffs", "Literally disallowed by languages", and "If you were to attempt doing that our test suite wouldn't let you merge."

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2018
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      I think we as an industry celebrate (not quite the right word) failure too much and don't celebrate success nearly enough. There is no DailyWTF for competent execution, word of which generally stays pretty local to the source while incompetence passes into legend.

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    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2018
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      Alrighty let me try to thread the needle on being the change I want to see in the world while not giving away anything that will get me in trouble:

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    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2018
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      Ruby has wonderful developer ergonomics. Typed languages are easier for machines to guarantee the correctness of. We built a type checker for Ruby (and I believe it is slated for OSS release sometime). c.f.https://medium.com/byteconf/stripe-is-building-a-ruby-typechecker-d6cd7cee6abf …

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    6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2018
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      We have an infrastructure at work which allows one to specify an invariant about not just code but e.g. objects or the environment and then have a range of response options if that invariant changes. (Parallel evolution of code: I wrote a less-well-specified one at last gig.)

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    7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2018
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      Git, continuous integration, and workflow-driven mandatory code reviews are all younger that the Joel Test, at least insofar as them being common features of median-sophistication engineering shops.

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    8. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2018
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      It is not astonishing to start a new engineering job in 2018 and have a developer environment which reasonably approximates the production environment available on one's laptop or tested, repeatable ways to spin up and spin down a new server w/o "build it by hand."

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    9. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2018
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      It is highly likely that a service which is hard down learns of that fact faster than Twitter can apprise them of it, assuming that service is operated in a professional fashion. At risk of stating the obvious: this is a relatively novel development.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2018
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      The industry has decisively adopted: * a single, common encoding for almost all human languages * a single, parseable, human-readable data interchange format * a default protocol for information transport

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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2018
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          You can round to "Any new application talking to any application written by a competent team in last 10 years will be talking to it over an encrypted link which neither side had to think deeply about because the technology is reliable, ubiquitous, and uncontroversially legal."

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2018
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          While it's not literally the case that you could replicate an entire modern software company's deployment for zero dollars in software licenses, that can almost round to true, due to the pervasive use of OSS. This is very good for learners.

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        4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2018
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          You can get a full development environment capable of doing Hello World spun up in your well-supported language of choice in, almost certainly, less than ten minutes of effort (contingent on you using a Mac, sadly).

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        5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2018
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          The majority case for libraries, APIs, and file formats of interest to you will overwhelmingly be "If you Google the thing you want you get exactly what you need very, very quickly."

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        2. Kelvin Nishikawa‏ @kelnishi 14 Nov 2018
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          Replying to @patio11

          unicode, json, https?

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        3. Felix‏ @Skythedeath 14 Nov 2018
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          I thinks that’s right.

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