DSpinellis

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by DSpinellis 13y ago
Rosetta Code proved very useful in an experiment to see how typos affect code written in various programming languages http://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20121205/ .
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by DSpinellis 13y ago
There is nothing wrong with sending binary (non-textual) output to stdout. Many programs, like the netpbm utilities, work like this.
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by DSpinellis 15y ago
I agree; tests can be too easily gamed. The assessment of courses I described in the blog was mainly based on the coursework. In the programming course a simple multiple-choice exam was used to weed-out students who might assign their cou
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by DSpinellis 15y ago
LoL
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by DSpinellis 15y ago
According to the data sheet http://datasheets.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/MAX1908-MAX8765A.pdf "D2 protects the MAX1908/MAX8724/ MAX8765/MAX8765A when the DC power source input is reversed. A signal diode for D2 is adequate because DCIN only power
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by DSpinellis 16y ago
Strangely enough, Greece (which I had in mind when I wrote the blog post) has plenty of processes, procedures, bureaucracy, and comprehensive regulations AND also ranks quite low in the Transparency International Corruption Index, in part d
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by DSpinellis 16y ago
Many people use UMLGraph to document and reverse engineer existing Java programs. But the reason I wrote it is exactly as a tool to create UML diagrams using a textual notation. It use as a documentation and reverse-engineering tool came
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by DSpinellis 17y ago
There are also tons of good code around. Most large, successful open source projects have source code full of gems from which we can all learn. Even better, by participating to a large open source project we can also learn a lot from the