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nicostouchon Ask HN: What are good software architecture interview questions?

Give me an example of a violation of the Liskov Substitution Principle that is not the canonical Rectangle/Square example.

nicostouchon Ask HN: Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?

Solid lesson. Thank you for sharing.

nicostouchon Ask HN: Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?

What UI? Using git on the command line is exactly the same as using SVN on the command line. At least for basic, every day things like status, add, commit etc.

nicostouchon Ask HN: Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?

This is why we can't develop nice things.

nicostouchon Ask HN: Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?

Like Airtable?

nicostouchon Ask HN: Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?

So our answer is "yes"?

nicostouchon Ask HN: Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?

I remember my first day on the job too.

nicostouchon Ask HN: Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?

Let's not forget Japan Post's CSV for all the Japanese Address data that contains some lines that are line-wrapped, that is, one record spans two or more lines in the CSV file. A line-wrapped CSV... I just can't even.

nicostouchon Ask HN: Have you ever worked on a product that was killed by technical debt?

(blown away by all the responses to my original question!!!)

Your story here makes me laugh if only because of a very painfully familiar memory. Luckily this wasn't a big production system but rather an internal tool (that I guess clients did also use but it wasn't part of 'production' per se) that was written entirely in perl_cgi filled with cryptic regular expressions written in complete spaghetti code and it would concatenate together entire webpages that had bits of them rendered by including the contents of files strewn all over the file system and of course the logic to concatenate all the html together was strewn across a fistful of files which were in disparate locations. In short I was once asked to make a simple change to some html and after 5 days of reading through perl_cgi and developing a pure hatred for Larry Wall, I decided to do a java re-write that took 3 days. I mean... crikey. Haha.

nicostouchon Ask HN: Closest Thing to “Twitter for Code”?

github gists

nicostouchon Ask HN: What are some good (fiction/non-fiction) books about human progress?

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

One of the most enlightening reads out there. Read both Why Nations Fail and Guns, Germs and Steel.

nicostouchon Ask HN: What are your favorite books?

Why Nations Fail - amazing book for understanding why some countries are dirt poor while others are rich. Absolutely phenomenal read.

nicostouchon Show HN: Curabase – Curate a list of links for yourself, your team, or the world

For those who love the idea and wish to keep more control over the data and have access to an API, I've put together a tutorial on how to make your own Curabase in roughly 10 minutes using Airtable.

http://www.web3tutorials.com/2016/05/05/make-curabase-in-air...