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by shangxiao 12y ago
I guess this is a problem with proverbs: lack of context. For architectural design or requirements elicitation it's all about improving with iterations. However with detailed design you can be quite precise and shouldn't just wi
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Unfortunately I only agree with a handful of these particular proverbs. The set of proverbs that I've found are truly useful to programmers would be "The Zen of Python" (open a Python session and run `import this`) The Zen o
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by shangxiao 12y ago
I obtained my degree in Software Engineering at a university where engineering grade mathematics and physics were mandatory subjects. It really annoys me that I spent 4 years studying this to find that other people who scrape together snipp
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by shangxiao 12y ago
What I find amusing is the fact that quite a few people didn't even bother to change the designer blurb, which to me suggests they know absolutely f all about design and hints at why they find it necessary to copy in the first place.
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Sure you could, if the code is complex enough you would hide dead code acting as a signature, which would be somewhat analogous to mapmakers inserting false towns in their maps [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap
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ThoughtWorks Technology Radar Jan 2015(thoughtworks.com)
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by shangxiao 12y ago
I was watching "Five Easy Pieces" the other day and instantly recognised the sound effect for the garbage compactor from episode IV. In this particular film it was the sound of the oil pump equipment in one of the scenes at the oi
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by shangxiao 12y ago
lol when will people learn not to drink & make stupid jokes in public ;)
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by shangxiao 12y ago
> Moreover, would a taxi company be held responsible for a driver raping a passenger? Yes! If not legally responsible, at the very least they are socially & morally responsible.
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by shangxiao 12y ago
I've actually seen people use versioning in their URLs for deprecated APIs only , with the current version not using a version number.
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Chances are you're (well at least with me) going to do filtering anyway so /artist/8/albums becomes redundant ;)
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by shangxiao 12y ago
In this case I would either make albums a field of artist, or just leave it off altogether and just filter /albums based on the artist foreign key.
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Query parameters on the collection. Dealing with ranges is always a tricky one though and I've seen different REST libraries use different querying.
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by shangxiao 12y ago
> use nested routing for a cleaner design I think this is actually quite debatable and I've seen a lot of people argue that nested resources are an anti-pattern. I only ever use nested resources myself when the child resource is
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Did you analyse it with Firefox Developer Edition?
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by shangxiao 12y ago
I hope your laptop smells nice. I'm sure you meant sniffing your network traffic? Edit: Oh man I think I've hung out with the Python crowd for too long I think their rancor is starting to rub off on me ;)
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by shangxiao 12y ago
I thought developers over the age of 35 were taken out the back and shot, how did you escape?? Just curious as I turn 35 in a couple of years... Edit: to the person who downvoted this, it's a joke in case you didn't notice
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by shangxiao 12y ago
What would happen if sah88 were to realise the site's name, but not the details, to warn other people to also not trust this company. Is this grounds for defamation or something like that?
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by shangxiao 12y ago
A couple of years ago in Australia a security consultant noticed that firststatesuper.com.au had a gaping security hole in that he could manually change an ID in the URL and gain access to other users' account information. He kindly no
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Heuristics basically means “best practices,” heuristic: (adjective) using experience to learn and improve
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Can you explain how this is astro-turfing?
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by shangxiao 12y ago
I like this project and am keeping an eye on it, but tbh that answer doesn't really answer the question in a way that seems objective. It just says it's a "general purpose database offering all the features you typically ne
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Writing OS's is hard and there are no shortcuts. You should take a look at microkernels and the work Andrew Tanenbaum did with Minix 3 [1] and his modular design as this is the sort of direction you're probably looking for with c
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by shangxiao 12y ago
There are a few important concepts here which can help UI designers create better UX. It's always good to be able to back good design up with proven science. Eg I always tell people that animations are more than just eye candy, they
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Well there you go, interesting. The "see who wrote the comment" comment was unnecessary though as it's pretty obvious.
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Awesome. Is this sort of thing usually done with RC planes? I've been watching a few RC plane videos lately - there seem to be a lot of pilots out there who could benefit from electronics to help land their planes - especially those
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by shangxiao 12y ago
I do this as well albeit with Django as my backend. Grunt has a few plugins that help you manage this as well. If you're using CoffeeScript and/or SASS then I highly recommend grunt-connect-proxy - it's trivial to set up and
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by shangxiao 12y ago
I don't think Netscape demanded a "java-like" language.
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Perhaps he should've taken the "Constructors considered harmful" approach?
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by shangxiao 12y ago
Awesome, bookmarked like it's 1999. Seriously though the snippet for the forgetting-new protection in a constructor seems quite handy. It's always good to hear arguments from both sides of the fence.

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