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by philbo 16y ago
Good point. Is a game that simulates sex somehow less ethically acceptable than one that simulates murder or warfare?
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by philbo 16y ago
Gah, I can't remember the details now, but I'm sure one of the interviewees in Coders At Work talks about this point. Something about how the notion of pointers/references is fundamentally wrong because it doesn't reflect our understanding
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by philbo 16y ago
Thanks. Lua is on "my list" actually, Fortunately I am only forced to work in C for one particular project (sorry if that sounds negative, C-heads, I'm just a messy enough person to require garbage collection to stop me from messing up too
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by philbo 16y ago
Wow, serendipitous, thanks.
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by philbo 16y ago
Okay, this definitely helps but I'm still struggling (sorry), I'm probably focusing too much on minutiae but: * At the static level, what does it mean to start the loop at `case 0` then fall through to the termination of the loop? Part of m
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by philbo 16y ago
That is a really good description (and I love the `crappy flowchart`, thanks). But I think what I'm mostly taking away from this is that my brain struggles with the more serious aspects of C-style imperative programming.
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by philbo 16y ago
The blog post is excellent. It led me to this: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html I've programmed in C a fair amount, but I am incapable of understanding the construct contained therein. Specifically, the interaction of the swi
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by philbo 16y ago
Maybe it is just me, but I think the email comes across as patronising and potentially counter-productive. Projecting superiority like this while patting developers on the head and telling them how much you respect them suggests arrogance o
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by philbo 16y ago
There was some discussion about this last week here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1864932
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by philbo 16y ago
I don't think the idea is original (still a great idea, though). ODBC, for one, would seem to have had the same aims: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Open_Database...
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by philbo 16y ago
I'm curious, what was your motivation for subscribing to the Times instead of getting your news from elsewhere? And, connection problems aside, are you satisfied enough with the service to continue paying for it?
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by philbo 16y ago
Regardless of the scarcity of jobs in your area, you need to find a better one. What you describe are his problems, not your own. Do everything you can distinguish yourself from the competition, i.e. other jobseekers. Build a stunning perso
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by philbo 16y ago
I've been in a similar situation in the past. The approach I took was to work gradually and try to clean the most heavily-used mess bit-by-bit, under the radar if necessary. For instance, take the particular long, messy function that you ha
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by philbo 16y ago
I think it's pretty widely accepted that TDD is not a good fit for UI development. What is important is ensuring that there is a clean separation between the UI and any operational code, such that the operational code can be unit tested in
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by philbo 16y ago
I'm not the OP but I think it is because the class names being used are not semantic in terms of the content. Instead they contain information about the layout of the page. This makes certain types of change messier. For instance, if I have
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by philbo 16y ago
As a sighted user, I can look at the preview image of an embedded video and that may influence whether or not I decide to play the video. Why should a user with impaired vision be denied the same opportunity?
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by philbo 16y ago
My experience with design patterns has been that their usage can prevent people from considering the deeper issue of what it means for a design to be good. I would far rather work with programmers that have a good grasp of the five SOLID pr