How far can we stretch technical debt?

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How far can we stretch technical debt?

FromThe Eric Normand Podcast

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Nov 15, 2021

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Technical debt is a metaphor used to explain the tradeoff we all face when we have a deadline. How much is it worth to rush the code out the door? It's a good metaphor, but the term is often used these days to mean 'code I don't like'. In this episode, I examine the parts of the metaphor and ways in which technical debt differs from financial debt.

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Nov 15, 2021

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An off-the-cuff stream of Functional Programming ideas, skills, patterns, and news from Functional Programming expert Eric Normand of LispCast. Formerly known as Thoughts on Functional Programming.

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A Theory of Functional Programming 0002: All right. I am talking about, “A Theory of Functional Programming,” which is a book that I’m working on, and this is actually me working on it right now. I am going to talk about the topic, and hopefully, the transcript will turn into my book. I talked a by The Eric Normand Podcast
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How variants can reduce complexity: If we don’t limit it, complexity will get out of hand. One way to limit complexity is by collapsing the number of possible states down to a few known states that we know how to handle. by The Eric Normand Podcast
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A Theory of Functional Programming 0005: There are different patterns that we use as functional programmers to reduce the possible states so that it becomes easier to reason about. I think that this is something that we should talk about a little bit more, because it’s actually something that is by The Eric Normand Podcast
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A Theory of Functional Programming 0006: What I want to talk about is this issue of what is an action and what is a calculation in terms of timeliness, because we know that deep down in the computer, everything is an action. Every operation depends on what is that particular locations in memory by The Eric Normand Podcast
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How far can we stretch technical debt?

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