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Weekly Programming Challenge #1: Binary Search Tree(medium.com)
1 points by jamis 10y ago|0 comments
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Playing “what if” with “if” – exploring a consequence of Ruby's grammar(medium.com)
1 points by jamis 10y ago|0 comments
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Write It When You Need It(medium.com)
2 points by jamis 10y ago|0 comments
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It's Not Your Fault – The Role of Environment in Burnout(medium.com)
4 points by jamis 10y ago|0 comments
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Avoiding the Trap – Learning to Recognize Burnout(medium.com)
1 points by jamis 10y ago|0 comments
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The Poverty of Constraints – Two Proverbs That Preach Productivity in Poverty(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
1 points by jamis 11y ago|0 comments
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“Being a Good Neighbor” – Thoughts on the Role of Compassion in Business(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
3 points by jamis 11y ago|0 comments
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“Don't Feed the Hamster the Whole Stalk” – A Parable about API Design(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
3 points by jamis 11y ago|0 comments
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“The weakly-flowing stream” – don't let constraints kill your momentum(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
1 points by jamis 11y ago|0 comments
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Living with your eyes open – learn wherever you are(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
2 points by jamis 11y ago|0 comments
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Four Korean proverbs applied to software development(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
3 points by jamis 11y ago|0 comments
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by jamis 11y ago
Thanks for stating it more clearly than I did! You've nailed it. It's always bothered me when people dismiss their ability to learn a thing, because they think some part will be difficult. They really have no idea. Yes, the task a
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Don't Assume It's Difficult Until It Is(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
153 points by jamis 11y ago|29 comments
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“Recover the Widgets” – WebGL Game Prototype(jamisbuck.org)
1 points by jamis 11y ago|0 comments
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Avoiding “Call Super” with Callbacks(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
1 points by jamis 11y ago|0 comments
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Don't confuse an integration API for an internal API(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
3 points by jamis 11y ago|0 comments
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Upsilon Mazes(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
8 points by jamis 11y ago|0 comments
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Representing toroidal grids and mazes(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
18 points by jamis 11y ago|2 comments
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Fifteen minutes – doing more in smaller chunks(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
3 points by jamis 11y ago|0 comments
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Test-last vs. test-first: testing what you should have written(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
4 points by jamis 11y ago|0 comments
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by jamis 11y ago
Agree about debugging. To my thinking, though, there are two types of "programming": professional (for day jobs, where debugging, testing, and maintainability matter), and recreational (where the point is to just explore new thing
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by jamis 11y ago
Thanks! I'm not the first to talk about using IRB for interactive fiction, but I think I might be the first to do so using nested defs. :) IRB-based Zork would be awesome! I hope someone does that.
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The Dynamic Def – abusing Ruby's def statement(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
141 points by jamis 11y ago|86 comments
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The Dynamic Def – abusing Ruby's def statement(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
1 points by jamis 11y ago|0 comments
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Stuck? Try changing the channel(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
1 points by jamis 11y ago|0 comments
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by jamis 11y ago
The article links to my github repository for a wordsearch utility I wrote (here: https://github.com/jamis/wordsearch ) and it includes a description of a technique for embedding a message in the unused letters of a wor
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by jamis 11y ago
Backtracking works well to try and fit words in tightly, but (especially in cases where the words just BARELY fit) it can take a long time to generate the puzzles. I'm sure that judicious use of heuristics could prune unprofitable bran
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by jamis 11y ago
Good point. I was relying mostly on the words being sufficiently complex that the odds of them appearing by chance would be small, but enforcing that assumption would be a good exercise.
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Generating Word Search Puzzles(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
29 points by jamis 11y ago|13 comments
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ActiveRecord's “default_scope” is an anti-pattern(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
2 points by jamis 11y ago|0 comments

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