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by joe24pack 19y ago
This reminds me of an in-house parser of graphing software files that we use to populate physical route information for warehouse control systems. We also used certain naming and icon conventions to express particular semantics that the pa
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by joe24pack 19y ago
I like how the post focuses on the practical aspects of using Lisp first. I'm just a novice autodidact when it comes to Lisp, but the thing I absolutely love when learning or playing with the language is the interactive top level. I use S
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by joe24pack 19y ago
So perhaps we've been focusing on the wrong series of problems when it comes to software development productivity. Doing the HOW is not the bottleneck, but rather determining (rigorously enough) the WHAT that is the bottleneck.
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by joe24pack 19y ago
Okay, point taken. Let me rephrase. Will we ever be able to create abstractions or systems of abstractions that make software development significantly (orders of magnitude) more productive than what we have now? And if so, will we ever r
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by joe24pack 19y ago
Yeah, but we won't be able to pace while working out problems in our heads, or drink mighty draughts of our favorite brews after a successful launch.
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by joe24pack 19y ago
What about whole databases and the various applications that use them? one time complex system models for climatology or finance or spread of diseases? Simulations of alternate systems designs for traffic and infrastructure to optimize par
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by joe24pack 19y ago
Agile works well enough for our teams at work as long as everyone is aiming for the same goal. I used waterfall only once and it ended up a "failure" or a "qualified success" depending on your point of view. What we produced wasn't really
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Ask YC: Will software development ever be so cheap, that we will waste it?
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Masterpiece Engineering(trailing-edge.com)
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by joe24pack 19y ago
At my present day job, I don't have to hold my ideas back because they are only tangentially related, if at all, to my employer's line of business. I give my day job only as much energy and enthusiasm as I need to get the work done well an
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by joe24pack 19y ago
This is why I've learned to give only as much as employers expect and occasionally 5 or 10% more. All my best ideas stay with me, for my own projects. I've made the mistake that the company's and mine interests were the same far too often
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by joe24pack 19y ago
hmm ... couldn't almost every point in the article (and many more not in the article) be said of Lisp/Lisp-like languages ?
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by joe24pack 19y ago
Since I'm forty, I'll just ignore those last three words in that title. I've now enough experience to know what works and what doesn't, and how to do things profitably and well. The only thing I don't know is if I have enough stamina to e
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by joe24pack 19y ago
No, developers should not insulate themselves from SQL and databases. ORMs in my opinion are a handy way to abstract away some of the common boilerplate, but I'll never understand why some people hate SQL and relational databases. I've wr
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by joe24pack 19y ago
>what we've got here is faiiiiilure to communicate! >From Guns'n'Roses civial war song, in my opinion, ... Sorry, but the Guns'n'Roses got it from the movie "Cool Hand Luke". [1967 - The phrase is first used in the motion picture Co
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by joe24pack 19y ago
I'll have to dig up my copy of Sun Tzu and see how they compare.
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by joe24pack 19y ago
Anyone remember how quickly the gargantuan "Patriot Act" suddenly appeared just after the September 11th attacks? I know it sounds very tinfoil hat-ish, but I figure the "Patriot Act" was written long before those attacks that supposedly p
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by joe24pack 19y ago
I became so bored with Facebook before I joined, that I never actually joined.
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by joe24pack 19y ago
"off-line Web Apps" ... hmm, isn't that another way to say a desktop app that's also a special purpose client?
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by joe24pack 19y ago
I've wondered about that myself at times. Some code that I've inherited was truly atrocious and much of that ended up rewritten, but other had been impenetrably dense. Those I had a mind to leave alone simply because I feared breaking the
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by joe24pack 19y ago
sounds like "stacking of errors" that will put the whole operation out of tolerance fairly quickly.
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by joe24pack 19y ago
Byl jsem narozeny cech, spravne prazak, ale ted jsem american. Prominte, muj pocitac nema hacky a carky, a moje cesina je detska.
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by joe24pack 19y ago
I'm "researching"/teaching myself knowledge representation and knowledge management at the moment. I read a lot about the Semantic Web and how it will be the most wonderful thing, but I suspect that we will just end up with "tag soup".
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The Pathetic Fallacy of RDF(eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk)
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To je výborný !
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by joe24pack 19y ago
Do you specialize in SNS optimization?
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by joe24pack 19y ago
Actually, yes I do. We're aiming to take software development past the next productivity hurdle. Right now we are researching some of the core ideas involved. If we succeed with software, our approach has applicability to other design re
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by joe24pack 19y ago
Each little well thought out part that works, and what I learn from novel situations that I've not dealt with before. Seeing progress and seeing the solution unfold as I explore the problem domain in greater depth and breadth.
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by joe24pack 19y ago
when creating an account, please have a second password field for confirmation. Without that, it is far too easy to fat finger the password when creating an account.
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by joe24pack 19y ago
Damn I should tell one of my former co-workers at Western Electric => ATT => Lucent Microelectronics => Agere that you're using his former email handle as your site name. I'm sure he would get a kick out of it. It's not obvious

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