Listen to an audible book while you do it. Treat it as meditation time. Treat it as exercise. Use the time to call your mum or dad.

Lots of things can be done while aimlessly walking.

One of the most amazing things about aimlessly walking is the opportunity to let your mind wander freely! Not to say that you can't multitask while walking, just a thought :)

> the vast majority of Web scraping efforts are to build businesses on top of other organizations hard work and innovation. Period. End of story.

Yeah and the vast majority of the internet and all these mega corps run on open source while paying pittance back to the ecosystem. Cry me a fuckin river.

Can't wait til someone sue's them for "scraping" their site for web previews and thumbnails everytime someone shares a link on Facebook.

The double standard of these muppets.

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> I'd have still been paying £50/domain or £150/wildcard root domain cert per year.

For vapourware. SSL certs should never have ever cost anything. They've always been a scam.

We got juiced by PE. Hiring went to absolute shit. Nobody knows whos in charge anymore. Decision makers have all left the company. I just make everything up as I go along and people go with it because I've been around so long nobody will question it.

Total shit show.

Not being able to run delete commands is a bit more than a limitation no matter what way you want to spin it.

Intel does a fair bit of exclusivity deals to prevent vendors from making certain pairings. It also didn't help that amd mobile CPUs were budget options for a long time. Manufacturers haven't caught on to the demand yet really.

It also leads to overengineered framework code that only exists to support the glue code that is now required to pull distant code together.

Increasing the distance between inputs and outputs increases complexity.

Reusable code isn't all that reausable when nobody understands it or things are so fragmented people can't figure out how to operate the code base.

This isn't a rule. It's a moderation thing.

aka

Abstractions have non zero complexity costs.

And

Repeated code has non zero complexity costs

Why is this a hard concept?

It doesn't make dry any less valid.

Generally you can invoke both reasons to do something but the underlying reasoning is always complexity.

Indeed. In any practical optimisation problem, which is fundamentally what all engineering is, there's a sweet spot.

You can't just slam the DRYness knob to 11 and expect it to always be better, any more than you can turn a reflow oven up to 900°C and expect it to be better, just because 380°C is better, for the specific PCB in question, than 250°C.

It also doesn't mean you can turn it off entirely, just as if you look at your charred results at 900°C you don't conclude that "heaters considered harmful".

Also, the problem is strongly multivariate and the many variables are not independent so the "right" setting for the DRYness knob is not necessarily the same depending on all sorts of things, technical and not, up to and including "what are we even trying to achieve?"

I think author is making the point that it always was interchangeable and that we've been over treating it as if it's always a disease.