ranko

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by ranko 11y ago
It's a symbol for the now-defunct lira, though a 'L' was probably more usual.
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Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer(benjiweber.co.uk)
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The Asshole Filter(siderea.livejournal.com)
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by ranko 11y ago
In general, it's easier to get a new job while you still have the old one (because potential employers usually prefer candidates who have jobs). It sounds like almost anything would be preferable to staying where you are, so why not pu
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by ranko 11y ago
For Java and associated ecosystem, Devoxx UK ( http://www.devoxx.co.uk ) is a pretty good annual conference. You can see talks from last year at https://www.parleys.com/channel/devoxx-uk-2015
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by ranko 11y ago
See also the null object pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Object_pattern
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Penguin ditches degree requirement for job applicants(theguardian.com)
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by ranko 11y ago
Also available in HTML: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...
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by ranko 11y ago
Reminds me of yet another cool story from Richard Feynman about beating an abacus salesman with mental arithmetic: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/feynman.html
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by ranko 11y ago
They mention this on their Github page ( https://github.com/postspectacular/rnd.farm/blob/master/READ... ): Since this histogram is byte based and submitted values have a variable bit length, the &quot
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by ranko 11y ago
Interesting approach. From their Github page ( https://github.com/postspectacular/rnd.farm/blob/master/READ... ): We'd like to do a little experiment and see if a large (or even not so large) g
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by ranko 11y ago
The price of overtime to an employer isn't only (or even mostly) the pay - it's also the impact on the rest of the employee's work. Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister claim in "Peopleware" that "there will be more
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by ranko 11y ago
See the marvellous http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-a... (discussed here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10449660 )
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Best Practices vs. Witch Hunts(accu.org)
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by ranko 12y ago
I think the OP means "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/
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Wolf Hall – the economic lessons(theguardian.com)
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by ranko 12y ago
There were two things that helped me get started: pairing with a more experienced developer who did TDD, and reading Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce. You might not have the luxury of the fir
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by ranko 12y ago
Perspective: at least 95% of the UK population is based outside inner London (which is what "London" in the headline refers to).
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by ranko 12y ago
Measles is pretty devastating in the approximately 0.3% of cases in which it's fatal, and that's in the US (according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles ). It's (even) worse in less well-developed co
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by ranko 12y ago
Good point - though it also applies to non-open-source systems, where we don't necessarily even get to keep the pieces if the maintainers disappear.
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by ranko 12y ago
If you want a thoughtful and interesting analysis of why you're wrong, read Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. While it's (of course) a simplification of the real world, Diamond looks at questions like "Why did Spania
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by ranko 12y ago
By coincidence, I read this recently, after following a reference from Growing Object-Oriented Software ( http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com/ ) by Freeman and Pryce (which is also highly recommended). It contai
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by ranko 12y ago
Reminiscent of Weinberg's 1971 "Psychology of Computer Programming", which discusses programming as a human activity. This is from chapter 1: "Programming is, among other things, a kind of writing. One way to learn writi