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"Crash early" is not about which line of code comes earlier textually. It tells you to detect errors in the earliest possible step of processing, so that you don't inadvertently make decisions and com …

One of the main reasons for doing this is indeed to hide complexity or protect your system model from corruption. But there is another advantage that becomes more important over time: maintainability. …

instanceof is bad because it forces the user of a set of classes to be aware of all the different subclasses that you invent. As it is, whenever a new subclass is written, classes that have only a l …

You don't need sophisticated machine learning to do this. ML is essentially just systematic similarity computation, and computing the similarity between sets of strings (the headers of a file) is simp …

Yes, it makes a lot of sense. The value of a struct is not just that it encapsulates data under a handy name. The value is that it codifies your intentions so that the compiler can help you verify t …

Of course it's possible, but for such a small example (and, indeed, for many that are much larger) the amount of plumbing/concurrency control code you'd have to write would obscure the business code t …

Sure, if a data sink in your application's world really is unique, i.e. all messages of some kind originating anywhere in your system should end up there, then there's nothing wrong with having a dedi …

From the fragment you show there is no good reason - if both URI type and MIME type can be present simultaneously, it seems strange to null either when setting the other. There might be hidden reasons …

You've seen programs that interpret option arguments both as a filename and as literals? Depending on what, the state of the file system? That's an insidious defect or exploit waiting to happen. Never …

The question how "clean" it is to have a generic builder/deserializer/factory that can create objects of different classes from textual descriptions depends on how easy this is to do in the language. …

The decisive question you must ask yourself: Where will the parameters actually come from in practice? If you know that all these methods are ultimately just for clearer understanding for the maintai …

Because with a fully compiled tool, what it can do is limited to what the distributor thinks is useful. Sure, in theory everyone can write their own extensions in C, recompile and happily use them. …

Git is a distributed version control system. It's always possible to know that the parent commit of your commit was, since you need it to create the commit, but it's fundamentally impossible to enumer …

Recompiling dependent code is expensive: compiling takes time, particularly in a language as syntactically complex as C++. Historically, for most C++ compilers it was extremely expensive. But more imp …

In my view, if a method does a large, complex thing such as train an entire ML model, then tweaking various little aspects of that thing isn't violating the SRP. People usually argue against boolean …