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by kscaldef 17y ago
I'm overall sympathetic to the opinions in this article, but I think he's gone astray in the section "Complaint: TDD freezes the API too early". One of the ideas of TDD is that writing tests guides the API, rather than forcing you into an A
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> The question becomes, though, why are A and B suddenly interlinked? Why was this context not already in place? Here's an example, roughly taken from a project I did not too long ago (in an imperative language, not a functional languag
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I disagree. Good commit messages also document the product. They should describe or reference features requested, bug reported, and the _why_ of the change at least as much as the _what_ of the change.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It's unclear exactly how common this problem is, and it would be nice to see some more in-depth independent investigation (I have some degree of skepticism about the YouTube video), but failing to test something like this with anyone who is
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Haskell types do not have an inheritance structure. Typeclasses do, however this still does not allow you to create a heterogeneous list. This is probably a bit terse, but you'd really be better off to go read an introduction to the Haskell
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> More to the point, you've been trained think that is normal, in countries where guns aren't legal, the very sight of a gun would strike fear into people. I suppose that might be true in some places, but I've lived in Europe and spent
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by kscaldef 17y ago
You can in Oregon. Our courts have ruled that our state constitution's guarantee of freedom of expression includes public nudity. (There are some minor quibbles over the exact extent of this but there are several large scale naked events i
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I don't know where you visited in the US, but it doesn't sound at all like where I live. * Most people I encounter are happy and friendly, even the poor and unemployed. * I'm not accustomed to seeing police carrying anything more than a hol
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I completely disagree. The number of problem domains where typing speed is the bottleneck is quite small, and they aren't the interesting problems. As I spend more time in this business, it becomes clearer and clearer to me that the job of
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I find myself disagreeing on two fronts here: First, in the context of CS1, in my experience, the assignments just aren't long enough that speed writing code matters. 20-50 lines of C just isn't that much typing. Second, in the world of rea
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I'm fine with that argument (although it seem to apply to raising animals as well). I was responding more to the parent's suggestion that certain parts of certain plants are designed to be eaten (and then pass through your digestive system
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by kscaldef 17y ago
And when you eat those fruits, but then deposit your waste in a toilet and send it off to a sewage treatment plant, are you in harmony with that design or subverting it?
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> The people using the machines every day know that (for example) all the database servers are named after planets, all the web servers are elements of the periodic table So, what type of machine is "mercury"? I've never seen a theme-ba
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> I imagine he focuses on the actual movement of malaria because he is a medical entomologist and didn't want to make claims he was uncertain of Which didn't stop him from making claims that his nomination to the IPCC would have been bl
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by kscaldef 17y ago
In that case, can I suggest making that clear in the initial section of the document? For example, changing the sentence "As a solution to this problem, I propose a simple set of rules and requirements that dictate how version numbers are
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Hardly a new concept, and one that many companies and projects have used for ages. I'm not criticizing this policy at all, but the impression of taking credit rubs me the wrong way. Yes, there's a couple sentences in the middle: "This is no
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Most of the interpretation on these graphs seems like subjective speculation. One thing I think is worth pointing out is that the observation that "C, C++ and Perl projects are significantly more "top-heavy" than those in other languages,
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It is derived from the ML programming language ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_%28programming_language%29 ). Other languages in this family are SML, OCaml, Scala, F#, and (more-or-less) Haskell.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It would be nice to see a section on "How is Yeti different from Scala?".
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Run the program under valgrind.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
The question is not whether or not the language spec permits you to do this. The question is about what happens if you do.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> For many engineers, doing well on an interview is very important for their life, and it is extremely frustrating to have a question they cannot answer. FTFY
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Do you find it useful, in your field, to understand how your tools work? If so, perhaps you might allow that if someone is interviewing for a job using another tool (C++, in this case) that they might be expected to know how that tool work
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Honestly, I wouldn't put too much faith in this working. It's possible that I'm just really bad at this, but the last couple times I've been looking for work, I've never gotten a company to budge off their initial offer (even when I truthfu
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by kscaldef 17y ago
No, there's general agreement that the quality of hiring at Google has gone down. They just started from a higher baseline than most.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Which is not really that different from how much I pay in taxes now on my phone/DSL line.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
This doesn't really explain why these chains succeed in America, though. My current theory about this has to do with the relative mobility of the populations. Speaking personally, when I'm at home I never go to Starbucks. There's a dozen o
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I'm curious. Do you know any hiring method which scales well while maintaining high standards? I have yet to encounter any company where the quality of hires didn't decrease as the company grew.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Maybe you weren't being serious, but I don't really see how technological advancements of that sort are going to make people any more comfortable being confronted with the fact of their mortality.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It's worth pointing out, for those who may not have RTFA or RTFComments, that this statement was a retraction from a commenter who attacked the claim that the code in question was dead code.

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