martininmelb

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by martininmelb 14y ago
While ack is a great tool, I don't think the author pointed out its strengths in this article. From my perspective, the strengths are using it recursively and its ability to 'recognise' files containing source code (and yes, I know that gr
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by martininmelb 14y ago
Are you confusing awk with ack?
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by martininmelb 14y ago
I used to use IntelliJ when I programmed in Java and loved it. I was still learning Java and its ability to show help, check syntax and refactor was excellent. But then I did less Java and more Python and returned to vim. One issue was th
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by martininmelb 14y ago
I'll try to summarise in two words: "Technical Debt".
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by martininmelb 14y ago
These articles reinforce something that someone told me a long time ago about a study about interviewing. 1. In most cases, the person (or the person in charge, if it is a panel) makes a decision in the first five minutes of the interview.
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by martininmelb 14y ago
I showed this to my 9-year old daughter. After explaining it to her, her first question was 'Can I have one?'. I told her that it was a one-off. She then asked me to bookmark the page for her.
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by martininmelb 14y ago
I like the sentiments expressed in the post and hope that on my deathbed I will not regret "not having spent more time with my children". I think, though, I would regret it more if on my deathbed I thought "My children did not get the oppor
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by martininmelb 15y ago
This story about Steve Jobs is probably relevant: I was sitting in Steve's office when Lynn Takahashi, Steve's assistant, announced Knuth's arrival. Steve bounced out of his chair, bounded over to the door and extended a welcoming hand. "It
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by martininmelb 15y ago
I have always seen git as a kind of assembler language for version control. We are now starting to see some second generation languages built on git. The first batch may not be perfect, but over time we will see improvements. I welcome the
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by martininmelb 15y ago
While I am sure that the author believes that this question drives his decision, the research indicates that most employers make a decision within five minutes - and the main driver of that decision is the extent to which the candidate is l
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by martininmelb 15y ago
As an 'end-user' of Python, I rarely find myself writing my own classes, but I am really pleased that the authors of many of the libraries that I use decided to write classes. I think the distinction between 'end-users' and people who make
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by martininmelb 15y ago
1. I notice your solution uses recursion (at least I assume it uses recursion - I am not a ruby programmer). I think this would be an issue for large values of n (stack overflow). 2. I think an iterative function for fact would be more eff
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by martininmelb 15y ago
Sounds like an early exercise in Agile Shipbuilding.
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by martininmelb 15y ago
Don't express appreciation, show appreciation. What do I mean? Express appreciation: Hi Jane, I really appreciate that you worked until midnight to get rid of that bug. Show appreciation: Hi Jane, I looked through the code - and you've rea
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by martininmelb 15y ago
I came here to say exactly the same thing... so, here's my other piece of advice: Think about very good managers that you've had; what was it that made them good managers? Try to emulate that (for me it was the weekly 1:1).
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by martininmelb 15y ago
It's both.
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by martininmelb 15y ago
Which is also what the company is claiming to do. I.e. we will create a prototype and walk you through it before we start coding.