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Well it wasn’t MIT but it wasn’t DeVry either. My guess is his curriculum is pretty representative of the current state of things.
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Yeah I guess it’s the non-trivial bit that needs clarification. My son shelled into nix systems and wrote some c++ code that made system calls. It’s just the way the prereq was written leads me to believe a good portion of his time in this
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by 0x445442 4y ago
> Students are expected to have a good working knowledge of the C programming language, have written non-trivial programs before, and to be able to competently use a Unix system with a command-line shell interface. All coursework will be
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by 0x445442 4y ago
OS/2 failed because of IBM’s abysmal marketing, not because it was inferior tech.
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Hopefully I just missed it but I didn’t see one attribution to Jef or Aza Raskin or the Canon Cat. I find it very hard to believe the authors were not aware of that prior work.
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Yeah... http://programming-motherfucker.com/
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by 0x445442 4y ago
So from my experience that link is describing what I've known as a Tech or Team Lead. But the link introduces another title, "Principle Engineer", that I've not encountered.
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Yeah, I've been a software engineer since 1996, the first ten years in the defense industry and I never heard the title before a few years ago.
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by 0x445442 4y ago
I've done something similar in the past with a database that had corId, sender and receiver columns to query. Your solution is more elegant.
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ESR is random to you? Oh youngling, much to learn you have.
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by 0x445442 4y ago
One of the biggest problems with sprints is they’re organizationally orthogonal to CI/CD. Kanban is a much better process for an organization who’s goal is to continually deliver business value to stake holders. And it’s been my experi
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And if I’m not mistaken RTM wrote a sizable portion of this site you’re posting to; which is immensely ironic.
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Great post and I’m glad to see someone else spotted the obvious similarity to Smalltalk.
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> any time you have a vaguely specified component with "manager" in its name This seems to be a limitation of class based OOD and the absence of free standing functions. There needs to be a place for code to exist which operate
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> It was a graphical notation for describing code The most useful bits weren’t even that but more of a graphical representation of a data model. Data models are useful in describing interfaces between components but they’re useless in he
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by 0x445442 4y ago
Not sure if it's an oversight but I don't like ripping off names of existing projects, especially when they are comparable tech. https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2665
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I don’t think society is opposed to higher learning. I think they’re opposed to scientism.
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> If the same criteria were applied in CS And this will be here before you know it unless more people start calling bullshit.
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The link was in the article… https://spsp.org/events/demonstrating-our-commitment-anti-ra...
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Alan Kay has some epic rants about the hubris of our industry and its willful ignorance of its own history. Thus he describes it as a Cargo Cult.
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Yeah, I call it collectivized micro management.
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If you replace Russia with USA, your statement is spot on.
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What I don’t like about the LISP syntax is not the parens but the inside out nature of a lot of LISP code. It’s the same reason I don’t care for NodeJS code. However, a lot of the imperative Common Lisp code I’ve seen is not nearly as jarri
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It’s been a number of years since my last reading but what I remember is it pulling at the thread of the concept of quality. The author stumbles upon this while teaching an introductory writing course at college. What he discovers is that i
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Fantastic book. It’s exploration of quality is amazing.
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But then he blows it by linking to Instagram.
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I agree, mocks should not be used and if you remove mock dependencies it usually exposes glaring problems in the code organization and design because the tests become overly complex. The dependencies should be coded to an interface so that
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Because you have to address the separate permutations and concerns of multiple stack levels versus just declaring what you want the result to be from those additional stack levels. In essence, your "unit" test is a lie because you
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But even here you’re testing the same code twice. One directly with the tests for the class the static methods live in and once accidentally when you test the class that includes the util class as a dependency. This situation can be fixed b
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But Java has a solution for the “good static methods” you’ve described in the Function interface. I’d submit that a FooLib class with these static methods could be replaced with a foo.lib package with the corresponding Function implementati

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