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by msluyter 18y ago
I'm not a libertarian. I'm also a fan of python. Coincidence? ;)
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by msluyter 18y ago
I think that the analogy between Picasso's process and software refactoring is rather weak. We generally consider refactored code to be better and less crufty than the original (one would hope!) But the refactored bull isn't necessarily "be
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by msluyter 18y ago
No, it's Iguana to Stretchpants.
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by msluyter 18y ago
While it's true that there are many abbreviations of "message," surely some are inherently easier to cognitively process than others. Compare: "eag", "sg", "msa" -- randomly chosen letters (in orig order) vs. "age", "meg","mag" -- purposefu
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by msluyter 18y ago
I like a lot of the concepts, but I'm dubious about terse naming. The long e-mail example simplifies "msg" to "m", for example. Now, while I would agree that veryLongVariableNames can get tedious and annoying, and while I'm also in favor of
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by msluyter 18y ago
What's so scary about this is that the quickest and surest way to eliminate a surplus of young men is war.
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by msluyter 18y ago
We use it here at work, and the major problem with it, IMHO, is that its search functionality sucks. Its search will pull up matches in multiple versions of a document, and further exacerbating the problem, our company uses Sharepoint for v
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by msluyter 19y ago
I read books to understand concepts and technologies at a higher level (I particularly like the Head First series), but Google has largely replaced my day to day use of books as programming references.
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by msluyter 19y ago
Here's a take from an ex-classical musician, now software engineer: Making a living in the arts is excruciating. Classical musicians today tend to live in an unstable patchwork of part-time gigs, private teaching, side jobs lacking health i