[pavel_lishin]

> First of all, consistency does not matter at all, ever. THat's his main thesis so it's already wrong.

Can you say more about this? Because I strongly disagree with your assertion.

[veverkap]

> Build stuff that does exactly what you want it to do, nothing more

This is also confusing to me. In a multi-million line codebase, it's extremely difficult to find an actual place where you have zero side effects with ANYTHING you write.