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Many UML modeling tools like Visual Paradigm allow you to generate code based on your models. One big problem in this approach is that it is hard to make changes beyond that. Some people want to customize the generated code, but that means
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I used to be in the camp thinking that we should be using way more visual programming tools. I even worked at a startup company building a "software factory" (essentially a tool for generating a DB and an accompanying front-end wh
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I loved my time studying for a masters degree, and after graduating I started with a PhD in Japan which has been an amazing experience. If you want to learn many new things, meet interesting people from all over the world and you don't
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I don't think there is much to gain from this tutorial, then again it doesn't pretend to offer you much either. For example in the code you are discussing, defining a model as variables and operations, instead of as a function, wa
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I'm still quite young, but I notice it is harder for me to learn new concepts or programming languages than it was when I was a teenager. I can imagine many programming jobs have little room for learning. I'm still a PhD student s
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I don't know about your parents, but I think many old people who used to do technical work are not that good with modern technology.
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I was interning at a pretty successful software company in The Netherlands. I have never heard anyone there discuss about whether to use Arrays or LinkedLists. In the binary education system in The Netherlands there are two types of univers
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For me the path has mostly been BlueJ (Java) to Eclipse (Java) to Visual Studio (C#) to Eclipse (Android) to Intellij (Python/Android/JavaScript) to vim (JavaScript/Python). Some people try to turn vim into an IDE. Personally
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I've been studying about C++ lately. It has proven to be a lot harder to learn than PHP, JavaScript, Java, C# and Haskell. It's one of the most powerful and widely used languages around however, so calling it a failure seems rathe
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Just want to add that Lisp is still famous in symbolic AI and Fortran is great for numerical computing (it’s a dependency of numpy)
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The human capital of id was valuable, but I think you are underselling their brands and technology. 150 million for the ownership of some of the most iconic brands (Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein) in FPS gaming doesn't seem that expensive, e
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Being a PhD student in Japan (and a non-native English speaker) I agree with many points in the article. Some frustrating things about my own experience: - In my lab, all of the papers written by Japanese students have to be checked by fore
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Check out Linear Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers ( https://www.edx.org/course/linear-algebra-foundations-fronti... ), it's being offered self paced by edx, and you can download the lecture notes for free at http:
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I think academics might only consider their work published once it is accepted by a conference or journal. If it's a preprint, it is not published yet, hence it has no publication date. Even if you submit a paper today, it might not be
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I'm not sure if we see a return of the MOOC or just growth in various alternative formats, because the term MOOC actually has a very specific meaning which is not always reached by the services/companies mentioned in the article.
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I think the Pomodoro Technique is one of those things the article posted warns you against. Having a timer counting down might make you more stressed about time passing. When I was using the Pomodoro Technique many people who I met mentione
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Programming languages in general hide the limitations of machine code under the rug. Regarding performance, why don't we write our web applications in C++, Rust or Go? There is a lot of churn in front-end frameworks, but for back-end f