@lechindianer So maybe “how to apply FP ideas in whatever you’re doing now”? blog.ploeh.dk has been doing a lot of that for C# and Dependency Injection. (And long before that was Higher-Order Perl [hop.perl.plover.com].)

@lechindianer For experienced programmers new to FP, persuasion may depend on their interests. Scott Wlaschin of fsharpforfunandprofit.com has good content (blog, talks) for business programming, including the book Domain Modeling Made Functional.

@lechindianer May need more info on audience and length. Newcomers to programming would be well-served by How to Design Programs, which has had some actual pedagogy research thrown at it.

@rafaelcosta Arachis doesn’t seem to be deducting links from my charcount.

@lechindianer ActiveRecord on Rails is easy to use but also easy to misuse. People often lossily try to enforce constraints in the ORM rather than the DB, and it’s easy to wander into accidental N+1 queries by using the wrong API. Tools like bullet [github.com] help.

@lechindianer I’ve earmarked SQLAlchemy for Python and myBatis for Java as seeming to avoid many common ORM ills, but haven’t needed them yet.

@lechindianer I’ve found Room on Android pretty painless, but it’s basically a compile-time checked SQL query generator and change monitor. Row Data Gateway vs ORM in Fowler’s terms.

@lechindianer “Let’s store our users’ data in a vendor-controlled format, using a system whose bugs we can’t fix ourselves, and let that choice affect the entire app” rubs me very wrong.

@lechindianer Cocoa & iOS actually went with “object graph persistence” with CoreData rather than an ORM. Mostly that seems to throw people for a loop. I feel CoreData is fragile and complicated and invasive and mostly not making tradeoffs I value.

@lechindianer As a mostly mobile dev, it’s not been a problem I’ve had to confront very much - often document persistence can just be a flat file, whether XML or PList or JSON.

@lechindianer The link with Fowler’s comments from 2012 seems pretty on point: https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/OrmHate.html

@lechindianer English runs into this a lot with job titles. Mailman/postman, fireman, chairman… Each tends to have its own workaround: mail carrier, firefighter, chair or chairperson…

@lechindianer Ah, the “gender gap” bit is what I was totally missing. Thanks!

@lechindianer @Hikerus What’s the story with the stars, and how to read them aloud? I think that article must be at the tail end of a discussion, but it just takes context for granted and has no links to earlier coverage (or I missed ’em).

@33MHz I use Basecamp 2 alongside PivotalTracker. It definitely has search and file support. v3 has a lot more features; it’s how Basecamp organize building Basecamp: https://zapier.com/blog/how-basecamp-uses-basecamp3/

@33MHz Basecamp?

@33MHz I’ve used the “dupe to next match of word under point” before, but mostly because “replace all in range” is hilariously awkward in most editors. :\

Text Editors: Can someone explain why you'd want multiple cursors? I think it's a different route to accomplish stuff I do now with regex-replace, macros, and visual-block mode, but I want to know if there's some cool technique I'm missing out on.

@rafaelcosta Looks to show a Delete option when I swipe left on any timeline post, not just my own.

@muncman @33MHz Ease may depend on what needs to happen to get changes to show up. As to easily, I mostly have avoided needing orchestration, so I’d expect lots of fiddling upfront to get it started. Timebox to ensure investment will be recovered.