Roboprog

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by Roboprog 10y ago
Oh. Well that's just great, then :-)
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Also, "X" for me is OOP as the sine qua non of programming practice. I mean, the concepts of Simula 67 were promoted endlessly in the 80s, but I'm tired of being stuck with that as the primary design mechanism. "COBOL w
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Hah! No, I put in "X" because I forgot the details, and X changes over the years, anyway. But I like your comment.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Watching TED Talks is like this. Sometimes they are interesting, but sometimes, sickeningly self congratulatory.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Reminds me of a Douglas Crockford presentation (which is obviously referencing this idea) where he talks about computer science progress, and having to wait for people to die or retire before practices change: "Are they gone yet? Can
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Yeah, some days I think the US civil war was a mistake, and the south should have just become a separate country. Sort of a "Mexico North", or something. With apologies to otherwise intelligent people that have to live in that h
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Not really. Also, typeof doesn't work at all on object literals. Best just to see if it quacks, or barks :-) (i.e. - does the object define a given function/"method")
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Possibly embrace the fact that semicolons are noise, and treat JS like you would Ruby or other line oriented languages??? (ignoring the fact that JS will "look ahead" past an otherwise complete line - e.g. - return [nothing] fol
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by Roboprog 10y ago
To further extend that idea, you can lump code you (must?) read into 2 broad overgeneralizations: * An informative program that you will learn something (good) from. * A cryptic cipher (seemingly) that will only make your eyes bleed and you
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Thank you. After 30+ years of programming, I am often completely disgusted at what a bunch of magic filth JEE/Spring is. The guy(s) who made annotations in Java 1.5 deserves extreme punishment :-)
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Thanks. And I see from the downvote on my comment above that it is offensive to suggest that Canada might have a policy that favors the employee more than the employer. Mussolini would be proud of these pro-employer watchdogs...
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Yeah, you're right. We're all a bunch of stupid-heads in Sacramento, good for nothing but doing CRUD in COBOL++ (aka Java) :-)
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Rather than simply condemning you, since I have had similar thoughts, I think the answer is "it depends". Testing every teeny tiny piece of a program is just stupid, and leads to more test code than product code, to no real benefi
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by Roboprog 10y ago
In case of emergency, break glass :-) Wrong language, but here is an example of a mechanism to partially apply the trailing arguments, rather than the more customary leading arguments: http://ramdajs.com/docs/#partialR
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Possibly they might look at hiring outside of the Bay Area in such exotic locations as Boise, DesMoines, Minneapolis, Detroit or other places where they have recent college graduates who would have been motivated to study STEM fields.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
That's exactly it: indentured servants. I wonder if Canada's immigration policy that Microsoft is holding up is geared toward indentured servanthood, or citizenship?
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Not much, apparently :-) Oh, and we noticed that you got gas here , then had something to eat there , and there were only N minutes elapsed between them. Here is your speeding ticket and DMV record update notification.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Formerly known as Planet X, before the Pluto demotion kerfuffle. But Plan 9, er Planet, is good, too.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
That works, but I heard it as We Enjoy Typing. Either way :-)
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by Roboprog 10y ago
>> Some never learn. Even with currently available programming techniques, simply getting many coworkers to move from "WET" to "DRY" can be a daunting challenge. Many people just hate abstractions. ML / AI to
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by Roboprog 10y ago
http://federal-tax-rates.insidegov.com/ Some samples (cap gains rates, via whatever method is used on the site above): 2015: 25% 2010: 15% 2005: 16.1% 2000: 21.2% 1995: 29.2% 1990: 28% 1985: 20% 1980: 28% 1975: 36.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I like the dynamic + functional aspects of JS. I just wish that Node JS semantics were more like Erlang (which I have only admired from afar, alas - Java brain death forever!). E.g. - concurrent operations in a single VM, but using actors
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Look for cases where the cost of errors is high, then pitch the reliability of a managed workflow in the software. Otherwise, yeah, trivial stuff probably is done best with spreadsheets, wikis and ad-hoc emails.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Almost all teams these days that I know of have a revision / source / version control system of some kind purchased and installed. The "purchased" ones are usually worse than the open source ones (e.g. - Git, SVN et al).
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Re: automated testing. This can be quite time consuming to set up in many environments. Step one: get an Oracle database instance/schema that you can snapshot and roll back to a known starting state at will. Step two: get multiple
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Digital TV in the US flopped, as far as I can tell. Broadcasters were killed by their own greed. If a Roku is cheaper than an adapter box, and some of the channels on it are also free-with-commercials, as well as cheap paid content, broad
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by Roboprog 10y ago
OTOH - "I can put whatever I want on my phone, so suck it, Microsoft!" Payback ... and all :-)
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by Roboprog 10y ago
You're right, they don't :-( Like IBM and Oracle, MS is in the position of "Management says we've already won, so suck it, users!"
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Well, that's a lot better than the nagware that used to run during our first-thing-in-the-morning calls 3 or 4 years ago. Hopefully corporate IT doesn't screw it up (of course looking it down, fully screwed). I still like the Mac
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by Roboprog 10y ago
It's unfortunate that a user needs to find such an option. It's likely that the location and UI of the option will be changed yet again each release. MS "needs" (?) to prioritize "don't torment your users&quot

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