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The Problem with Software Development is...(slott-softwarearchitect.blogspot.com)
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by bigsassy 17y ago
Perhaps someone modified SCIgen for political opinion pieces? http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
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by bigsassy 17y ago
I think the analogy doesn't quite fit with typing speed in programmer productivity. If anything, it's analogous with time spent thinking on a problem. It's easy sometimes to spend quite a bit of time just determining how to attack a probl
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by bigsassy 17y ago
I know what you mean. A black colleague of mine was recently let go from my company and he found new employment pretty quickly. I wonder, if you graphed unemployment for developers would there be such a large difference between blacks and
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by bigsassy 17y ago
In my experience, it's not so much about being black as the environment you grow up in. There was an interesting study done by a professor of anthropology from University of California at Berkeley. Shaker heights was full of affluent Afric
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Breaking into Agile(slott-softwarearchitect.blogspot.com)
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Focusing Interaction Design with Design Strategy(uxbooth.com)
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How to write untestable code(googletesting.blogspot.com)
74 points by bigsassy 17y ago|29 comments
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by bigsassy 17y ago
I don't like it when people treat #1 as an unbreakable rule. Sometimes it takes more than 25 lines of code for a function to complete it's one task. The book "Code Complete" talks about this and has studies to back it up. Here's the quote
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by bigsassy 17y ago
Game development websites are a good place to look. Try these links: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=45#188 http://www.gamasutra.com/search/index.php?search_text=terrai...
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by bigsassy 17y ago
From the FAQ (I swear I'm not from YikeBike PR): It is likely that you will jump off the front of a YikeBike in an emergency braking situation - this is very easy as there are no handle bars in the way.
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by bigsassy 17y ago
According to their FAQ: Speed limited so that it can never go faster than 20 km/h even down hill.
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by bigsassy 17y ago
Collateral damage? Well, then it appears Google's experiencing some blow back, and deservedly so. It shouldn't matter what trails your blazing, you can't leave your customers burning in the blaze behind you.
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by bigsassy 17y ago
More or less. Rockville, MD
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by bigsassy 17y ago
Definitely try to make a living with my guitar. I bet a lot of fellow hackers here have a musical side too.
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by bigsassy 17y ago
Ah, thanks for the tip.
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by bigsassy 17y ago
I've always thought the opposite, which is estimation is fuzzier than design. I mean, who here hasn't been off on an estimate in the last month or so? Developers are notorious for making bad estimates. See http://www.codinghorror.com/bl
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by bigsassy 17y ago
Sounds like a good idea to me. Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario Brothers, had a similar half-baked idea: " As for the idea, my family and i have become more health-conscious in recent years, going to the gym and tracking our weight
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by bigsassy 17y ago
If anyone is interested in real-time client-server communication without throwing away your favorite framework. Orbited may be a good fit for you. Sockets in javascript. Check it out: http://orbited.org/
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by bigsassy 17y ago
Joined. I've been thinking we need a group here in the DC area. Nice going!
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by bigsassy 17y ago
When I first started programming, people would say the same kind of things for learning some form of assembly. 10 years from now people will probably be making an article like this for Java and C#.
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by bigsassy 17y ago
This is a great idea. I really hope that this becomes ubiquitous with posting NSFW links. It would be nice if you could affix multiple content descriptors, much like how the ESRB handles their rating system. See below for a reference: ht
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by bigsassy 18y ago
Certainly not.