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   by lifebeyondfife 14y ago

   I know and have worked with coders in their 50s, even 60s. They were very much what I'd call 9-to-5 coders though. They were never given big, important or new projects but as a consequence were never expected to burn the midnight oil. The m
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   by lifebeyondfife 14y ago

   Before HN, before Digg, before any kind of social networking or all encompassing tech news sites, there was Slashdot. I still remember when one of the first questions to ask a fellow programmer was, "You on Slashdot? What's your number?"
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   by lifebeyondfife 14y ago

   I know the branding can act as a mask over different companies e.g. Sony VAIOs http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/357289/sony-announces-division-t... . As you point out we're going from US mobile to UK broadband. But the point of the brand is to
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   by lifebeyondfife 14y ago

   I'm a Virgin Media customer in the UK. My home internet connection stopped working recently and (long story short) in dealing with trying to fix it, it turns out my main login password for their service can be accessed by support staff. Thi
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   by lifebeyondfife 14y ago

   If I recall correctly, wasn't the reason Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) stepped down from active work on StackExchange owing to spending more time with his children? I'd be interested to know his view on this article. Edit: Also, my PhD supervi
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   by lifebeyondfife 14y ago

   I don't remember the lectures I gave, or the students who fell asleep in my first few tutorials... but I do remember the students who asked me about concepts they didn't fully understand and how great it felt when I could see the idea click
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   Here's how to future proof UIs (a tutorial on Prism, MEF and Event Aggregators)(lifebeyondfife.com)

   1 points by lifebeyondfife 14y ago|0 comments
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   Why it's awesome anyone can become a hacker (and why it also sucks)(lifebeyondfife.com)

   1 points by lifebeyondfife 14y ago|0 comments
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   How I lost, and regained, my coding mojo(lifebeyondfife.com)

   1 points by lifebeyondfife 14y ago|0 comments
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    by lifebeyondfife 15y ago

    Does anyone have the same problem with SO that I do? I'm an experienced dev in some general / mature technologies, mainly the C-like languages (I know C# inside out) but essentially, nothing too specialised. Anytime I've gone on SO to try t
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    by lifebeyondfife 15y ago

    I can't recommend Tim Harford's 'The Undercover Economist' enough. There's a great chapter on Cameroon and exactly why it's the way it is.
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    by lifebeyondfife 15y ago

    I was going to try to write a short description but I may as well just link to the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_pattern This design pattern gives you the freedom to select algorithms for different behaviours without be
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    by lifebeyondfife 15y ago

    I don't think business should be amoral but I think it is. Businesses can do great things, help charities, help their employees, reduce carbon footprints - but anytime they do any of these things they squeeze all the good press they can o
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    by lifebeyondfife 15y ago

    Apparently this blog post reminded a friend of mine about an article he read in the nineties called The Hybrid Manager. Essentially, we as developers love technology as it really interests us. But unless we're writing tools to aid developme
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    Banking Isn't Evil: software dev's view of how banking works and what went wrong(lifebeyondfife.com)

    12 points by lifebeyondfife 15y ago|11 comments
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    by lifebeyondfife 15y ago

    If I hadn't heard of the service before I wouldn't reply either. It's not that I think someone is going to steal my identity with a neck size measurement but an unknown questioner asking for any kind of information would raise my spam/phish
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    by lifebeyondfife 15y ago

    Not at all, I'm really happy it's garnered so much interest and I'm glad people have taken the time to help correct me / advise what's not quite right.
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    by lifebeyondfife 15y ago

    I hope it comes across in the preamble that I've been using F# (the only functional programming language I've ever tried out) for just a few days and as such I simply don't know which is which yet. Anybody who's read this blog post and is i
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    by lifebeyondfife 15y ago

    Yes, my mistake sorry. Correcting it now.
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    by lifebeyondfife 15y ago

    I can't really speak from any experience as I've only just started programming in F# myself, I think for the most part it's not meant to replace the things you mention. The reason I looked into it initially was because of its applicability
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    by lifebeyondfife 15y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. To be honest I haven't really grasped all the ins and outs of functional programming yet so tried to ignore it as a first step. From what I've seen so far, I do like how much all the typing takes care of itself.
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    Functional programming for Object Oriented programmers(lifebeyondfife.com)

    75 points by lifebeyondfife 15y ago|34 comments