I quoted Uncle Bob’s post two days back and Hillel Wayne has written a much comprehensive response to the original post. In summary, it says:
Uncle Bob gives terrible advice. Following it will make your code worse.
I see nowhere in the original article where it says the tools are bad for you. In fact, it maintains that:
I have nothing against tools like this. I’ve even contributed money to the Light Table project. I think that good software tools make it easier to write good software. However, tools are not the answer to the “Apocalypse”.
There’s a very interesting discussion on Hacker News as well and I urge you to go read it. Uncle Bob Martin himself has left a few (albeit succinct) comments. It’s very interesting to listen to all parts of the story, especially from people who have far greater experience than you.
Uncle Bob responds to an article in The Atlantic titled “The Coming Software Apocalypse”. The Atlantic article apparently proposes better tooling to avoid software bugs.
I disagree. Tools are fine; but the solution to the software apocalypse is not more tools. The solution is better programming discipline.
We have fancy IDEs, sophisticated build systems and what not, but a sloppy programmer is a sloppy programmer. If tools can make her a good programmer, probably this is a field that robots can fill up easily.
MasteringVim tweeted an article by Christoph Hermann:
There is a plugin for vim (vim-multiple-cursors) which allows you to mimic that behaviour, but it has some problems.
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After using it for quite some time I came to the conclusion that there is no situation which can’t be addressed (IMHO even better) with “native” vim features.
Editing text in a non-Vim environment is a pain, so multiple cursors might seem a good idea (in fact, it was one of the major selling features of Sublime Text). But with all the modal editing features in Vim, you don’t need to go into the trouble of manipulating multiple cursors. Check out the article for some cool tips, including the powerful visual-at function.
Over time, you end up having granted access to a lot of apps from your social accounts. It’s a good idea to go over these periodically and clean up any apps you don’t need.
Some providers make it really difficult to find where to revoke these apps (I’m looking at you, Micro$oft). So here’s a list of direct links to different services I use to check the permissions every now and then:
[1] If you have signed in to multiple Google accounts, change 0 to 1, 2, etc for other accounts.
