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by psranga 18y ago
When you're first working on a large chunk of unfamiliar code, stepping in gdb is an AMAZING way to learn how the code works. If this guy is advocating adding prints to code, then his edit-compile-debug cycle must be very fast (i.e., smalli
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by psranga 18y ago
Tcl is an amazing language. Very underrated. It's "EIAS" (everything is a string) philosophy, and the duality of strings and lists is very very powerful. It's got one of the best-documented and precisely written standard libraries I've ever
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by psranga 18y ago
When I last looked at Blueprint, it looked pretty good for brochureware websites. But when I tried to use it for something else, I quickly ran into lots of limitations. I ended up coding my own CSS. What do others think? We really need a pr
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by psranga 18y ago
Excellent link. Thanks!
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by psranga 18y ago
Probably not. They say that if your browser crashes or you close the browser immediately after hitting send, the email still gets sent.
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by psranga 18y ago
Lots of people have pointed out several possible improvements to this feature. Now if we could anticipate these things with a few minutes of contemplation (each), I'm sure Google would have come up with the same list of gripes. But obviousl
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by psranga 18y ago
For what it's worth, I like the new layout. In particular, I like that I can just type whatever I want as a status message instead of Facebook deciding that my message should be 'XYZ is <fill in>".
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by psranga 18y ago
Forcing yourself to write short methods forces you to design your solution cleanly. I wasn't a fan of short methods, until I observed a master programmer's (who was also a co-worker) work for a while. After I adopted this style, I've found
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by psranga 18y ago
Long term trend. Status update is the #1 feature I/my network use on Facebook. I use things like "Notes" only because there's a char limit in status update. And I use Facebook instead of Twitter only because most of my network uses FB and n
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by psranga 18y ago
You're being marginalized. But I'm not sure if you're capable of being VPE but are being passed over because the CEO wants to bring in a buddy or because you are genuinely extremely unsuited for the job. If you don't want to be marginalized
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by psranga 18y ago
Git is great and it blew and expanded my mind. But I have some questions for the the experts. Is git really a fantastic achievement, or is the praise for git coming from people who are not experts in source control (+)? Based on my cursory
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by psranga 18y ago
What I meant is that the SCRUM inventors are telling you in great detail how to run the technical side of a software business. Not that it's telling the developer how to implement something.
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by psranga 18y ago
"You separate the business from the development. You need a product guy, interested in features that will move the product fwd. He is called the product owner. He keeps a file (an excel works best) - a product backlog - with all the feature
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by psranga 18y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the link to your report.
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by psranga 18y ago
I was just going to say, "enterprise software sucks because the people who approve its purchase dont use them". This is a great elaboration of that point.
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I've tried to learn FP a few times, but I never understood the advantages. Most recently, I opened up Armstrong's Erlang book. The power of Erlang seems to be due to the fact that processes and crashes are part of the language, and the lang
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by psranga 18y ago
Article sounds condescending. Did the "management gurus" compare that alleged accuracy to FedEx's and USPS's? A person who you know takes a low-value article and coordinates with approx 10 others to deliver it within a few miles by shepardi