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by singular 16y ago
I'm not sure about that - a methodology necessarily makes assumptions about what is important in running a software project. If a methodology says that you must write everything down on cards and pair program, etc. etc. as the fundamental b
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Ask HN: Agile - Pros and Cons?
3 points by singular 16y ago|7 comments
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by singular 16y ago
Nooo I didn't write it! Was simply interested in (and responding to) adamc's comment @ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477759
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by singular 16y ago
I submitted a Wikipedia article on this very subject :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477763 Apologies in advance for engaging in the clichéd 'submit a Wikipedia page' pattern!
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Mappings Between Written and Spoken Words in Natural Languages(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by singular 16y ago|3 comments
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by singular 16y ago
It's wonderful to have, as you describe, an "inverse" Daily WTF (Daily FTW maybe? :-); so often I am left feeling utterly depressed by stuff on Daily WTF and have been literally unable to read it because of that - the price of caring about
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by singular 16y ago
The problem with this is that once you get beyond really, really trivial code for whichever landscape you happen to working with (this is defined by the design of the language - whatever it's designed to be able to do easily), things get
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by singular 16y ago
Agreed. I'm 28, soon to be 29 and I have achieved a great deal less. That kind of experience, though sour, is pretty awesome, at the very least you should be able to get yourself into a highly paid quant position at a finance firm.
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by singular 16y ago
Is there a reserved area? Or is it a matter of walking around and finding the people talking about programming/startups? :-)
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by singular 16y ago
Hm no way I can get there for 6, miles away from me (and finish at 6) - is it vitally important to arrive on time?
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by singular 16y ago
True, true. Perhaps Google can use this as a selling point to ordinary users? Though of course a large number of these are going to be using computers at work which usually means IE[6-8].
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by singular 16y ago
Brilliant. The idea that loading a PDF won't cause a horrible browser freeze-up then require controls unrelated to the rest of the browsing experience is quite a lovely one. I wonder what impact this will have on scribd, at least the 'avoid
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by singular 16y ago
I will try and make it!
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by singular 16y ago
Wow. Just wow. If only Google could do sites just like it! :-)
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Inertia - Killer of Productivity - need hacks to overcome(codegrunt.co.uk)
2 points by singular 16y ago|0 comments
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by singular 16y ago
I'm really not sure I agree; programming is necessarily an engineering discipline and by nature requires a far looser, fuzzier approach than maths; though there is of course a mathematical foundation to modern computers (the Turing Machine
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by singular 16y ago
But doesn't that highlight a fundamental difference between mathematics and programming, in that the majority of programmers out there are working on problems using programming as a tool, whereas the majority of mathematicians work on maths
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by singular 16y ago
Brilliant! It's exactly this kind of customisability that motivates me to use linux.
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by singular 16y ago
As others have said; objects in programming languages do not map well to objects in the real world because a. the real world is vastly more complicated than any constructed abstraction, and b. our minds permit vagueness whereas computers do
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by singular 16y ago
Woah a lot of strong reaction to this, which is perhaps not unsurprising. I certainly think it is extreme language and I certainly didn't mean to imply that, as well-paid professionals, the majority of people on HN would be in a situation c
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Ask HN: (meta) Etiquette of submitting own stuff
4 points by singular 16y ago|5 comments
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Wage Slavery - Applicable to [Nearly] Everybody?(en.wikipedia.org)
27 points by singular 16y ago|48 comments
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Ask HN: Please (constructively) criticise + advise on my PL concept
2 points by singular 16y ago|1 comments
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by singular 16y ago
I use consolas on windows and linux and it is by far the nicest programming font I've ever used, surprised it didn't get more of a look-in, though obviously sub-pixel rendering is required for it to not look awful. Pity they didn't compare
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by singular 17y ago
Seems very similar/identical to Magic Whiteboard - http://www.magicwhiteboard.co.uk/ - a UK product that was featured on the UK version of dragon's den - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QvguJJNilA - is Whiteyboard a completely separate