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Industrial and Residential Electricity. We learned mainly residential but our instructor wanted us to be prepared for industrial as well. In the end, I was accepted to a small college but didn't want to work a FT job and attend college so I went into the Navy instead, into the AEF (Advanced Electronics Field).

iterations

The property of iterations is that things change, outcomes change, ideas change, requirements change. Iterations are not black boxes that we tuck away as 100% complete; they often require re-examination as the iteration process continues.

Software obeys its own dynamics. Some things work well. Some not quite the same. It's nice to see someone admitting that testing is good, rigid TDD; like rigid Agile or rigid Waterfall, are bad. Corollary, what our parents said still holds true; too much of a good thing is bad.

Consumer unfriendly behavior, your words, strongly suggests that it isn't a communications issue; rather it is likely a consumer affairs issue.

https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/bureaus-offices/bureau-consume...

Specifically:

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements...

"A simpler consumer protection solution exists. Congress should fully repeal the common carrier exemption in the FTC Act, and enable both the FTC and FCC to protect consumers and the openness and innovation of the internet."

https://www.insideprivacy.com/united-states/federal-trade-co...

"The FTC argued that if Congress really intended to divide jurisdiction along industry lines, it could have exempted from the FTC’s authority everything subject to the Communications Act or the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC’s) jurisdiction."

I think if you work on greenfield projects your whole career you're likely the one who's creating these 'steaming piles of manure'.

Eggzactly, well stated.

I've been toying with the idea of a language where queries are expressed as a pipeline of operations on result sets

That is what the relational database engine does in the first place. In fact, many really smart people have figured out how to make the engine really good at it and SQL is the best for working with it.

You don't like languages that the average human being can make sense out of but you do like Clojure? Did I read that right?

Then, "make them declarative and have software generate the diff". So you want the benefits of relational data without the pain, is that it? Why not use Hibernate like the oh so wise ones have told us to use only to now realize trying to bend relational tools into what a language designer's ideas are is maybe, probably, not the best idea after all and perhaps the reason that SQL and relational databases have withstood the test of time and Hibernate is on the road to death is that SQL and relational design were extremely, unabashedly well thought out and designed in the first place.