Roboprog

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931.
by Roboprog 10y ago
How about 3 times a day, while we are at it :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverworld#Grails
932.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Right. It's not like electronics manufacturing was moved to China in the 90s because of a shorter supply chain or superior expertise. Lower wages, and little to no environmental protection. ... and a government that will one day natio
933.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Apparently many others hold that belief, as well, to the extent that it is downright offensive to them to suggest otherwise. Any consideration that rather than mercantilism discouraging war, there is just a small chance that the threat of m
934.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Agreed. Background / culture makes a big difference on how well devs can understand each other's code. I still wish more of my teammates (past & present) wrote more comments (as in "statement of purpose", at the top
935.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Not sure why you got down-voted. Even if it's necessary, the costs are still pretty amazing. A bullet costs the same as a pretty nice car.
936.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Downvoters: so it's a good thing that we are transferring technology/manufacturing expertise away from the US and to potential rivals???
937.
by Roboprog 10y ago
3 grams is between about 1/6 and 1/8 once. Of course, only a small portion of uranium in a reactor core is converted to something else. After that, they replace the fuel as its output drops a bit. Disclaimer: I don't know en
938.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I look forward to the day when all of this "offshoring" of manufacturing (etc) will be recognized as the treason that it is.
939.
by Roboprog 10y ago
"They're not just tentacles, they're genticles!" With apologies to Futurama.
940.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Explanation: an equitorial mount has an axis that points at the north star (Polaris, or more accurately, the celestial north pole). One you learn to set it up, it's pretty easy to just "eyeball sight" over the shaft-bearing
941.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I've had several small telescopes, but my favorite turned out to be my first: a 4.5 inch newtonian reflector on an (no motors) equitorial mount, with upgraded 35, 25 and 10 mm focal length plossel eyepieces. A small refractor on a cam
942.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Oh, God, you're right. Sounds like my daughter on Facebook :-) "That David is such an asshole. I never want to see him again..." (with apologies to DHH, whom I find amusing, even if he is a bit "coarse")
943.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Re: Java environment. Because Java is a huge chunk of the job market (at least in the Sacramento area), not because it's a "language of choice" . Actually, the JVM is a nice thing, even if the Java language is primitive and
944.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Perhaps a bit more subtlety: Keep global concerns global, and local concerns local. Coloring and font schemes (margins/padding too, I suppose) are usually global, with variations for broad types of components. Sizes / positions
945.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I guess I can agree with that, in spirit. My CSS include file has very broad look and feel stuff. There is also a CSS block inside some pages that customizes size / layout stuff that only applies to that page (e.g. - fieldset and lab
946.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Thank you. Hearing I'm not the only one who feels that way makes me feel better about not including Bootstrap in the app rewrite we are doing at work (taking a decade old, 500K+ LOC, Struts app into the rich web client / Angular
947.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Well, there are 6 different orders in which you could insert the 3 if statements, but I'm not sure that's a material difference :-)
948.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Products in the 80s and early 90s usually came with books. Some of which were pretty good, if you could get access to the books.
949.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I'm OK with the "one word" parameter / return value names, in part, I guess, because I'm also a big proponent of a "pro forma" comment banner for every routine. For simple things, the comment can be a one
950.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Bit of a tangent, but here goes... It's a shame that C ... Java like languages became dominant, in that they "hide" identifier names after the type types, rather than putting the identifiers at the start of a line where the
951.
by Roboprog 10y ago
How about just "status" for the return code var name? It should be readily apparent that the var is "my" (the routine's) status [code].
952.
by Roboprog 10y ago
If you live in San Jose - no. If you live in Modesto - yes.
953.
by Roboprog 10y ago
So, you'll be our "defense against the dark arts" teacher this year? :-)
954.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Enterprise? Beam me up, Scottie, there's no intelligent life here :-) I have a pretty good idea of the -- "just following orders", OOP-factory strongly typed except for all the XML and annotations, never heard of FP, idem
955.
by Roboprog 10y ago
The catch 22 is that if you can't bluff a few years experience in this year's new hotness, you might not find a job, though. Of course that's ridiculous, but whatever is, is right, as the original sadist said.
956.
by Roboprog 10y ago
You know, there are some of us who like the fact that Javascript is a dynamic language that supports functional programming (FP) style. For us, "being like Java" is not a plus. My IDE already does a pretty good job at type infe
957.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Thanks, I had not seen that before. Interesting trick: Call a "registration" function with a string array (of dependencies) and an anonymous function (IIFE) with parameters for each dependency which the registration function inj
958.
by Roboprog 10y ago
How many symbols are all of those .ts files going to put into the global namespace?
959.
by Roboprog 10y ago
As long as I'm peeving at length about the Java meme plague, I wish the whole MashedUpCamelCraps identifier style would just die, already, vs you_can_skim_this style.
960.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Of course, by the time you get to event handlers and REST calls, you need a back end, but you could mock up an awful lot in 1.x without ever worrying about a "build".

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