I begin to wonder whether I am mad or have hit on an idea which is much bigger than I am. Gregory Bateson As someone who grew up in a religion and then let go of it in my mid-twenties, it’s easy to say, religion is a useless fiction that persists because a powerful group …
In retail marketing, there is a metric of customer importance called RFM: Recency, Frequency, Monetary value. How long ago was the last order? How many times have they ordered? How much money have they spent with us? This determines how valuable the customer is, and how much effort the company should put in to keeping …
Strongly-typed, type-inferred languages like F#, Scala, and Haskell make Java feel like its static typing system is half-assed. This is not Java’s fault entirely; it’s the way we use it. Say we have a domain class like public class User { public User(String firstName, String lastName, String email, long balanceInDollars) {}… } I’m in agreement …