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by hammerdr 15y ago
It was an Executive Order that only affected the Executive branch. But, there has been some abuses of an exception clause in the executive order. More information can be found at (the previously linked on this thread) http://www.politifact
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by hammerdr 15y ago
All great points and a finer tooth comb of nuances than my own analysis :) It all goes to show that the system in Washington is a complex piece of machinery that requires a hacker mentality to succeed. I absolutely and truly believe that th
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by hammerdr 15y ago
The President certainly does have legislative power, some directly appointed and some not. He has the ability to veto bills. His VP--effectively an employee of his branch--has the ability to break ties in the Senate. He is also the leader o
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by hammerdr 15y ago
The only gratuitous functions I saw were the "case" statement and the "with" statement. The with statement can really only be implemented with that function (though there is something to be said of only defining it once instead of n times).
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by hammerdr 15y ago
See: Accenture. It's a consulting company not a product company; it may be significantly different when "making partner" at a product company. However, from what I've heard, each partner at Accenture essentially runs his or her own business
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Microsoft has JScript.NET (and has for a while now). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms974588.aspx I haven't seen it used anywhere as a server side application, though.
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by hammerdr 15y ago
To be frank, you're talking out of your ass. Maintenance takes up about 50% of all IT budget [1]. Most individual pieces of software will spend 2-6 times (considering the average life cycle of an in production software product to be 2-4 yea
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by hammerdr 15y ago
I fear I am going to do a bad job of explaining this, but here goes: You'll get the typical Lisp-like terseness and folding that'll make your complex code much smaller. This includes things like currying and passing multiple functions as pa
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by hammerdr 15y ago
I spent some time doing several small programming exercises in Ioke. I've also done similar exercises in several programming languages ranging from C to Java to Haskell to Ioke. Ioke was ridiculously clean in almost every scenario. The only
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by hammerdr 15y ago
What are the quality on those? I've been sitting in a Steelcase Think for a few months now and, for a $700+ chair, it feels cheap. It is crazy configurable and seems to be doing all the right things, but here are some of the problems with i
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Java, the Programming Language, not the Development Environment, is what I think he was talking about. The JVM is awesome and will be one of the platforms that defines the next generation of languages (e.g. Clojure, Scala). Java the languag
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by hammerdr 15y ago
We can all certainly try :) And, fighting in the trenches every day (taking some time to do some refactoring instead of calling a feature done) is a great place to start. However, the code rot really needs to be understood by the upper mana
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by hammerdr 15y ago
I would argue that developers will tend to have a "this is too much Bad, lets rewrite it" perspective. It is good to temper our desire to write it our way with the realization that software that is hairy is often because of hairy business r
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by hammerdr 15y ago
4 clients..
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by hammerdr 15y ago
POST /cancellation { :booking_id => 123 } In general, it is not wrong to noun-ify domain concepts such as a cancellation.
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Re: offline mode. I've had to deal with this a few times. I make a brief mention of it in my article but gloss over the details because I wanted to get on to more important topics. In general, offline mode has been a terrible experience for
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TFS is destroying your development capacity(derekhammer.com)
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by hammerdr 15y ago
And neither would be accurate. Most users, both businesses and customers, are wildly happy with group on.
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by hammerdr 15y ago
> In other words, the majority of graduate students are incapable of fully understanding a newspaper I think this indicates a serious problem with the study. While I'm sure there are exceptional cases where someone could graduate from a
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by hammerdr 15y ago
From the article: "Any attacker who could swipe an unencrypted secret can, with almost total certainty, intercept and alter a web request. Intercepting requests does not require advanced computer science. Once an attacker controls the web r
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by hammerdr 15y ago
And, for this particular instance, standing in a room of 20 people, saying things like, "You are a terrible person. You make puppies cry. Someone should hurt you." over and over without actually talking directly "to" that person but with ev
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Congrats! I'm not a Windows Phone user so I am a bit out of my element in terms of typical application design for the phone, but some sort feedback when a user is performing an action would make the app feel more responsive. For example, wh
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by hammerdr 15y ago
The windowing technique isn't ungainly when its done automatically for you a la SpriteMapper :) http://yostudios.github.com/Spritemapper/
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by hammerdr 15y ago
You should look at Restful Routing (it's on GitHub and I'm on my phone, sorry for lack of link). It provides a rails-like method for doing everything you're asking. I am not sure how this drops into Razor since I haven't used it with MVC3 v
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Of course, but it should never be too late to do the right thing. It's better for everyone if people feel safe to contact the people in the know at any point than for them to think that it is too late and that if they just ignore the prob
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Not the children! Seriously, the dude is pretty clearly ill informed about what he was doing. In the end, though, he asked for help from the right place. He didn't do irreparable harm (or any harm period) to anyone. There was no significant
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Part of the reason I intrinsically trust start ups over BigCos is because they do not have such teams. Instead, I would expect the start up to be more personal, hands on, response and human . AirBNB, as much as I love them, seems to be fal
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by hammerdr 15y ago
You're arguing for my point, not against it. Writing code isn't the only thing that a programmer needs to do. Considering that, having life/work/team experience outside of the IT sector is very valuable. The fact that my friend is skilled i
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by hammerdr 15y ago
Experience = Full Time Work Experience. That's the only measure that they accept (and this is a formula dammit! We cannot go against that!). This seems to me to be a complete lack of understanding about what makes a good programmer (Assum
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by hammerdr 15y ago
I've had to get quite a few people up to speed on Git. What I've found is that for most CS-oriented people, beating around the bush is really just getting in their way. If you create the correct mental model for them, much of git becomes se

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