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by rob05c 13y ago
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_professionalism "In 1993 the IEEE and ACM began a joint effort...to explore making software engineering into a profession...The ACM pulled out of SWECC in May 1999...ACM determi
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by rob05c 13y ago
To which the government responds, "See, the War on Terror is working!" If you likewise point out that psychoactive drug usage has remained flat since the 50's, they say, "See, no increase! The War on Drugs is working!&qu
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by rob05c 13y ago
I use i3. It's not perfect, but it's the best I've found. I like: 1) tile movement is very dynamic; it's tree-based 2) supports transparent terminals; I like seeing my pretty wallpaper 3) mod key works well for switching
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by rob05c 13y ago
I have a project in Go which is pretty heavily functional. Over time, I've begun to notice the general goodness of his 2 rules. If you didn't RTFA, they were 1. Avoid nontrivial anonymous functions. 2. Function declarations after
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by rob05c 13y ago
Watching the video, I identified: 1 login screen has a picture of a galaxy. 2 windows are white-themed, with rounded corners, and minimalistic buttons/scrollbars. 3 music player is reminiscent of iTunes with time bar and track info top
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by rob05c 13y ago
I don't have nearly the problem of an OSX-lookalike as some. I used OSX for years because it was basically the prettiest POSIX system available. And like you say, a lot is simply good design. Apple didn't invent nearly as much as
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by rob05c 13y ago
>We need to remind them of that fact. “That is all very well, but who is to bell the Cat?” -Belling the Cat, Aesop's Fables
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by rob05c 13y ago
I believe programming is an art because "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." (Abelson, SICP) This heart of the matter, and it means programming is an art, a social one. Like