Rich Hickey, author of Clojure.
He's right. Except that state that can be updated from multiple places in an unfathomable way is far more painful to debug than spaghetti code that's all on page.
Category: LifeUniverse&Everything
“If someone asks for a Grande semi two shot steam hold the froth to walk, ask them if they would like a cup of coffee whilst they are waiting.”
David Temple Penn.
It takes about 120 seconds to make the perfect black coffee. Side orders take a little longer.
Outlook 2011 Mac hangs with IMAP – Folder Sync
Ignoring all the other problems with using Outlook 2011, one problem I had and solved:
Having set it to use IMAP, I then set the Preferences - Accounts - Advanced - Sync IMAP folders every xxx minutes to OFF.
Which stopped it hanging every 5 minutes.
Software Quality — the Whole not the Parts
Ben Higginbottom makes a significant point right at the top of this question about the Knight Capital fiasco:
Was the Knight Capital fiasco related to Release Management? On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group had a very bad day, losing $440 million in forty-five minutes. More than two weeks later, there has been no official detailed explanation of ...
Ben Higginbottom: Nightmare scenarios like this are not the result in the failing in any one discrete components that can be 'fixed' simply and sweetly by improving the process, but by small failures in multiple domains (I'm kind of reminded of a fatal accident investigation). So coding error, gap in the unit testing, weak end to end testing and poor post release testing coupled with a lack of operational checks when live. I can understand the desire for a 'silver bullet' fix, but in any complex system I've never known them to exist.
Sometimes, it's the whole, not the parts, that needs fixing.