Softly

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   by Softly 8y ago

   In my first year of university, I wrote a Java swing game which had classes for literally every part of the GUI (I was young, carefree and unwilling to yield on the principals of OO I'd been taught earlier in the year. I think it had s
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   Slack: Connectivity issues for users in Europe(status.slack.com)

   3 points by Softly 8y ago|0 comments
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   by Softly 8y ago

   Missed my favourite part of learning the mainframe: where the enter key is. Return and enter and two different keys, but, on most modern systems, they perform a similar function. On z/OS Return moves down a line (similar to Tab, but ig
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   by Softly 12y ago

   As someone who spent a few weeks looking at how the JVM really works, interfaces and super classes are not a compiler constraint but a JVM one. Sure, you could l could probably generate a lot of bytecode to get around this constraint. Or re
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   by Softly 12y ago

   So, in my eyes, competency in programming isn't about knowing everything there is about programming. It's about finding knowledege. There's no shame in looking for similar problems on stack overflow (so long as you don't
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   by Softly 12y ago

   The choice of supervisor is pretty important, I was lucky and found one who held weekly meetings with all her students and who kept us all on track. She even pushed me to publish an academic paper (and a free trip to Italy to present it). M