Lex Spoon

Discussion on the Scala collections revamp is starting to get mystical. It really bugs me: good language design makes a huge difference, bu...

It looks like Martin Odersky is considering an overhaul of Scala's collections : A redesign of the standard library is on the roadmap f...

Ken Clark has posted the top seven things he likes about shame mobs . Here's a taste: 5) Internet shame mobs weigh the evidence careful...

It's hard to beat lines of code as a complexity metric: the subjective complexity of a piece of code seems to correlate very well with i...

Since Semmle's business involves integrating with our customers' builds, I'm very sympathetic to Tim Boudreau's perspective ...

While clamping down on private encryption is bad policy, both for the economy and for privacy, I don't think it's technically imposs...

Don't take me wrong. I know a dog is just a dog, and a pet is just a pet. There are people reading this who have cancer, and there are...