Periodic

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by Periodic 16y ago
You have to be very careful about spaces and returns on some of them as well. Fortunately they tend to have short and precise output specifications. I do wish their grading script could give a little more indication of what failed, as I'm
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by Periodic 16y ago
I really enjoyed the humor in this article. It makes it accessible enough that I will probably send it to a few if my newbie-programmer friends. After discovering functional programming myself I figure everyone who doesn't love it must not
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by Periodic 16y ago
I think Rails or basic PHP are good places to start. There are plenty of screen-casts and tutorials out there for both. They may not go into depth, but they will help you learn the basics of web programming. You should move off of either
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by Periodic 16y ago
I realized this is how it is at my current employer too. They have very strict processes around this to manage seniority. For example, I am currently at a lower title (level 2) than another developer on my team (level 3) who I spend at le
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by Periodic 16y ago
I always like to think that analogies are supposed to make the point easier to understand by relating it to something familiar to the reader, sort of how people explain programming language features by comparing them to other programming la
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by Periodic 16y ago
I like the point that "winning" requires abnormal behavior, but I don't like the phrasing as "winning". Winning implies a competition, when many worth-while things in life aren't a competition and often simply passing a personal bar will s
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by Periodic 16y ago
I've been getting more and more invested in functional programming to the tune of Haskell and Erlang over the last two years. Unfortunately, the jobs seem to be all Java and Ruby on Rails, because that's what my resume says I have experien
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by Periodic 16y ago
JavaScript isn't really up-and-coming. It's been in mainstream use in browsers for a long (in internet years) time now. There may be a lot of emerging enthusiasm around JavaScript for non-browser programming such as with node.js, but it's
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by Periodic 16y ago
I think this problem may be while I enjoy functional programming so much. I believe that the functional programming tends to build from the data up, from the actual instances it then adds definitions of behavior, instead of trying to group
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by Periodic 16y ago
My rule has been to just pad "do" appropriately. Almost everything else works out well with a 4-space tab. Also, don't ever use only one-or-two spaces for indentation, and if you're finding you have a long expression with so much indentat
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by Periodic 16y ago
In the article he states, "today, at its 20th anniversary". This caused me to double-check the date of publication, which is November 22nd. Ignoring for a second that TBL has transcended space and time to the point that he can publish fro
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by Periodic 16y ago
I had my internal monitoring system on a network I managed set up with port knocking. It ended up being more hassle than I thought it was worth, as it wasn't a box that was getting attacked much anyway. It's really pretty easy to set up wi
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by Periodic 16y ago
My site isn't production ready yet, but I'm writing my back-end in Haskell. It's exposing a REST API via HappStack to the RoR front-ends. What stops me from using Haskell for the front end is that I'm familiar with RoR (and so my prototypi
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by Periodic 16y ago
In vim, when you have the same file open in different windows any changes immediately appear in the other window. They are the same buffer, there are just two windows to it. You can see this by opening a file, and hitting "<Ctrl-W>
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My Journey to Programming Enlightenment: How do I get back?(blog.havenisms.com)
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by Periodic 16y ago
I've been using Rhythmbox to play music, and in it you have a play queue in addition to being able to play directly from the library. It conveniently tells you how long total time in the play queue is. I often toss an album in there, then
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by Periodic 16y ago
Since the car was in gear I wouldn't be surprised if a slow and controlled breaking would cause the engine to stall. He passed out because his circulation was poor, which I take to mean that his foot was resting on the accelerator, not that
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by Periodic 16y ago
I'm already doing it. I set up cucumber + webrat to run through some quick UI tests. I wrote a mock-object framework into the last feature I designed so I could test it. There's still a huge resistance to change. I'm just hoping I can s
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by Periodic 16y ago
I just started working for a large enterprise corporation (one of the biggest financial companies in the world). We have a lot of old code written in Java that needs to be maintained. I've been trying to advocate new ways of doing things,
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by Periodic 16y ago
I don't think this is some sort of game where you can gain some credit doing one thing which lets you do the opposite and have others turn a blind eye. People might still give you respect despite a misogynistic movie, a flop company, or em
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by Periodic 16y ago
I find pieces like this often leave out a very important piece of the equation: what you do with the time you gain. The value of your time isn't constant. You haven't gained much if you pay someone $20 to mow your lawn because you think th
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by Periodic 16y ago
I'd go a little further and say that the actual gain is the value of your productive output minus what you had to pay for it. If you're producing $100 worth of value, but you spent $100/hr to get that time then you're not really gaining any
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by Periodic 16y ago
There's a lot of user experience that takes a lot of coding to get right. Sites, apps and devices with good user experience didn't just get it magically, they worked at it. Copying it would also take work. It's similar to startups. Ideas
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by Periodic 16y ago
Most people will claim to have absolutist morals. They will say that it is wrong to kill someone and that ends do just justify means. What becomes interesting is that almost anyone will display circumstantial morals if confronted with a t
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by Periodic 16y ago
> So the question really becomes: kill one man, or kill one man and ruin his family's chance at a decent life. In the article they said that conservatives favored killing the "black" man while liberals favored killing the "white" man.
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by Periodic 16y ago
From looking at the voting habits of California residents, it looks to me like people will generally vote for anything that gives them something without much cost, and vote against anything that looks like an increased cost without a visibl
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by Periodic 16y ago
It was nice to see that someone could test these with real-world usage, but I was disappointed by the quality of the results. I didn't see mention of the number of runs performed on each instance or the standard deviation of the results. T
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by Periodic 16y ago
It's like the reason I advocate comments though I know a few people who believe the code's behavior should be self-evident. The real question for any interesting application is not the how or the what, but the why. You can't answer the why
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by Periodic 16y ago
The OP stated that homework makes success more strongly correlated with socioeconomic status. I would guess that this is because households with better socioeconomic status tend to give their children more attention and expose them to the
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by Periodic 16y ago
> A means 'will loose significant value if not done today', B means 'important, but will not loose significant value if not done today', C means 'optional'. I find that very often, 'optional' means 'will eventually cross off because it

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