Roboprog

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by Roboprog 10y ago
Ugh, I'm tired of mandatory "OOP for dummies" a la Java (and C# to a lesser degree). I've been programming since the early 80s, and I have been exposed to more than just Javascript, or Java/C# for that matter. (BA
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I loved the way you could start with a static HTML mockup with Angular, then add the boilerplate in a single .js file, then define a simple data model in the js, slap in some curly braces and ng-model attributes hit "reload" and t
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Remember GWT? We were all going to write client-side widgets in Java. Turned out, that was a nuisance.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
With any luck, Angular 1.x will be like Perl 5.x - still supported about 20 years later :-) Did I just compare Angular 2 to Perl 6? Alas, Angular 2 is threatening to actually roll out sooner rather than later.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
You should put up some examples on github and post a link. TIA
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by Roboprog 10y ago
#include std_disclaimer.h I work on the team that maintains the CA Electronic Death Certificate System. Yesterday, our supervisor sent this out among the team. The certificates have spots for immediate and contributing cause of death. We
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Shen-gnu - middle age, left over free software???
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by Roboprog 11y ago
> How many people even know what to do with a sack of flour and a firepit? A few do. And she/he would have some very motivated students :-) Otherwise, yes, it's kind of fuzzy mapping the situation of the early 70s to the curre
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by Roboprog 11y ago
I wonder how much of this regarding stockpile sizes is still true in the age of software managed "just in time delivery"? I suppose food reserves for the year have to still be somewhere between harvests, but industrial supplies li
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by Roboprog 11y ago
And Enterprise Management has spoken! Ignoring the fantasy that I would get to use something higher level (than Java) for most work... Not everybody panics if they have to write code outside of Eclipse or Visual Studio. Once upon a time, th
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by Roboprog 11y ago
Similar experience. I picked up a copy of TP 5.5 and finally had an easier way to build my "ADT"s (abstract data type library type code). THEN, I got a copy of TC++ a few months or a year later. WTF?!? The light came on when I r
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by Roboprog 11y ago
I forgot the exact number, but I remember reading somewhere that for a garbage collector to work well you need to give it something like 3 or 4 times more space than you will actually be using at maximum allocation - not counting transient
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by Roboprog 11y ago
Man I loved the Eiffel book. When I think about the difference between invariants and pre/post-condition contracts, vs the "bean" anti-pattern that industry went with, I want to vomit.
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by Roboprog 11y ago
Enter threads. Now you cannot simply have a singleton built at the beginning. Maybe you can pool things in ThreadLocal, or maybe it's more complicated. I'm eventually gonna have to learn me some Erlang, I fear.
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by Roboprog 11y ago
What about a third way? I have not used the GNU version of Ada or Pascal, but you get C/++ style allocation choices (static, stack, heap) without all of the safeties turned off. Having bounds checks (with line number error reporting,
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by Roboprog 11y ago
Yeah, when C displaced Pascal in CS programs (mid to late 80s?), it felt like an uncomfortable step backward even then. Why were we programming in (little more than) assembler as our main language???
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by Roboprog 11y ago
Because Java is the new COBOL -- especially if you statically allocate everything for performance reasons. At that point, you really are left with something not unlike COBOL with separate compilation and the ability to allocate scratch c
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by Roboprog 11y ago
Sure. I now know: * What a great feature function pointers / procedural types / other call-by-name/reference-mechanisms were. (J8 lamdas are used like function references, but are kind of heavy) * What a source of mystery &q
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by Roboprog 11y ago
I can only imagine an (early 2000s) period piece by Bollywood years from now where the Indian hero stumbles into a hornets nest and says "Neocons, I hate these guys" or "Why is it always neocons?". Go Team America (F *
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by Roboprog 11y ago
I wonder what Bush would think about "These days the American make good villains", spoken by gangsters (circa 2010).
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by Roboprog 11y ago
I don't know what your "language of choice" is, but here in the Sacramento area, the selection of languages which there are jobs available to be worked is somewhat limited. Yes, ES/JS suffers from its "look like Jav
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by Roboprog 11y ago
Ah. Gotcha. E.g. - a newsletter doesn't need to be an "app".
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by Roboprog 11y ago
CSS? Now that's hard. I love both the dynamic and functional aspects of Javascript. See my comment elsewhere about currying as a frequent substitute for constructors/setters, abstract base classes and AOP.
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by Roboprog 11y ago
Hope that works for you (GWT sure didn't) I'll be just a wee bit contrarian on this, as I started out in my career using a more or less dynamic language in the mid 80s (despite being schooled in Pascal and later, C, which deserves
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by Roboprog 11y ago
This, minus the CDN - using compression and static file caching headers, only - is how we are handling a major app upgrade (pretty much a rewrite) at work. Of course, I flip flopped from hating Javascript to really liking it about 10 years
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by Roboprog 11y ago
Javascript is a great language. Transpiling another language to run on the browser (looking at you , zombie GWT!) will NOT make CSS and event handling any less complex.
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by Roboprog 11y ago
If you, or more likely, your organization, does NOT want to learn / use Javascript, then this probably IS the way to go. Not my cup of tea, but for many real world organizations, they have to restrict the scope of what the group will d
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by Roboprog 11y ago
Additional disclaimer: (duh) these are not the universities opinions, for any retarded who didn't figure that out. They are the opinions of a student's parent. Some of the figures are second hand, and may be a bit off.
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by Roboprog 11y ago
I have argued that policies (laws?) with teeth would be better than replacing the staff. Even if the UC would not enforce the policies, it gives rival agencies something to hold over them should they misbehave in the future.
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by Roboprog 11y ago
Oh dear! Is this discussion affecting page-rank for keys such as "Chancellor Katehi" "conflict of interest" "student protest"??? Life is hard.

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