I was working on my startup's food safety score web app, writing code to clean up imported text like, DELI DISPLAY COOLER HOLDING CREAM CAKE AT 44.6F BUT LOWER CORNER OF UNIT HOLDING FOODS @ 39F We decided to make this as readable as possible without changing the content. And so, the finished text should have improved capitalization, punctuation, … Continue reading Degrees of freedom: Four valid ways to write degrees Fahrenheit in HTML
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Software should cite its sources
The key idea: When a program gives some kind of result, it should be able to say how it came up with that answer - what rules did it apply, in what order, and why. If a reference was consulted, which one? Basically, software should be held to the same standards we have for people, … Continue reading Software should cite its sources