а ещё на хабре аккаунт восстановил

Ну и общение... впрочем, я и сам достоен этой толпы полоумных идиотов. Вступаю с ними в дискуссию. Тьфу. По сравнению с хаброй наша жужа - благородное собрание интеллектуалов... да так и есть, чего уж там.

а вот ещё кошмар

Когда в полночь на балкон спальни (а дверь открыта) заявляется с дерева енот и начинает что-то там шурудить. Ну да если бы и закрыта была, стал бы стучаться. Так что приснились, у меня на густозелёном газоне, куры, черепахи, койоты, собака... И всем им что-то от меня надо. Чтоб я ковчег построил?

java fun

"..".replaceAll("\\.", "\\\\.") + ".*"

I mean, if you want to have meaningful table names in hbase, you are pretty much limited in the choice of separators. I wanted to use [-._], but underscore can be used in variable names, so I use just dots and dashes as separators. Morse code.

authors..first_name-last_name-dob..last_name.ASC-first_name.ASC_index

this is the serialized index descriptor, which is the table name too.

Don't tell me I should not use meaningful identifiers, I'm way past that old sql/java crap.

agile or general plan

Agile people, they say, don't need no plans, just have a user story and start developing and refactoring.

I wonder when you are refactoring, don't you have a bigger picture in mind? I bet you do, but you don't tell anybody.

Although in general it seems like agile is the method of slapping together a bunch of crap and then build a cathedral out of it, by refactoring. Whether it's feasible or not, is not the point; the point is, if you do, you have an inner cathedral, the platonic prototype, in your mind.

Those that don't, they believe cathedrals just grow out of trash. That's the moment that they do not have this inner vision of a cathedral, and believe, in their cargocultural thinking, that nobody does. When the cathedral is ready, they think they did it, by writing up a user story and talking and talking.

I'd like to see an experiment, where a bunch of agile people are place together without any actuall programmer on board, just advisers, and are given a medium-size task, something hackathon-like.

And another team, where half of agile people are replaced with actual programmers.

(Here we should chant "praise the creators", hallelujah, etc.