hackits

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   by hackits 10y ago

   Going to play the devil's advocate here in regards to 'juniors' disregarding the wisdom and experience of 'seniors'. Maybe the advice, experience you're giving is not backed up with any evidence? They may be ta
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   by hackits 10y ago

   I found that basic courses on relational algebra more useful than most text books. They seem to introduce the mathematics in a more clear concise way than most SQL books.
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   by hackits 10y ago

   Difference between wanting to and needing to.
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   by hackits 10y ago

   I concur.
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   by hackits 10y ago

   Mostly rewritten because they business needs change. Software is there to service the business not the other way around.
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   by hackits 10y ago

   I would say that the threatening to quit because they don't take you seriously kind of re-inforces their view point why they don't you take you seriously in the first point.
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   by hackits 10y ago

   Thanks aryehof for the explanation. It answered a question that I have had in the back of my head all week.
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   by hackits 10y ago

   > Otherwise we're just getting tangled up in definitions and it's all a moo point. I agree. I would say a lot of things people do in OOP isn't really OOP it's just object modeling principles. You can apply the same pr
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   by hackits 10y ago

   As of a research paper by Kaijanaho, Antti-Juhani ( https://jyx.jyu.fi/dspace/handle/123456789/47698 ) Since 1960 till 2012, there are only 22 research papers that used empirical evidence with randomised cross
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    by hackits 10y ago

    Another good book if you're interested in actors/behaviour decomposition instead of data decomposition is: Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations and also https://www.amazon.com/Object-Thinking
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    by hackits 10y ago

    Could you elaborate leading by example `how it is different`? Seriously because unless you can define it, and quantify it then it is just rhetoric.
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    by hackits 10y ago

    I read your essay on programming languages. I found it was awesome btw. I saw you made the comment `o be concrete - object oriented programming is easy in python, because it's possible to program methods of an object in a way that does
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    by hackits 10y ago

    Agree completly. Kind of the reason why they call it a general pr9gramming language.
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    by hackits 10y ago

    Not saying its a key part. Im in the camp you better have a damn good reason to use inheritance that composition will suffice. The whole notion that everyone has their own perspective on oop makes it a mute point.
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    by hackits 10y ago

    Both simual and smalltalk inheritance was added later in the languages history. Yes its optional but it doesnt stop people making a mess of things when they categorise their objects based on data type instead of behaviour
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    by hackits 10y ago

    I find it interesting that everyone gets so up-beat about the ideology or philosophical debate about objects sending each object messages, hell even not relying to a message one object send you until a later date. Without even thinking abou