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Have you ever written a parser for a configuration file? Or a data driven interpreter which walks through data, and dispatches appropriate actions? I’ve written too many to count, and more than half of them were a waste of time. They were a waste of time because they were programming problems in disguise.
A classical disguised [...]
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They say you can’t control what you can’t measure. How else would you know if it’s getting better or worse, right? This is true, sort of, if you know what you’re doing.
You can measure the weather but you can’t control it. What you measure, and how, sets limits to how useful your measurements can [...]
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