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by wellpast 8y ago
Got you. Thanks for the clarification. Speaking of brain hemispheres, the left hemisphere doesn't get jokes like the one you made. The right hemisphere handles jokes, metaphors, etc. Looks like I'm a left-hemisphere-dominant pot c
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by wellpast 8y ago
You can slap "command pattern" on anything. But I'm speaking directly in the traditional form that implies a OO type hierarchy. You don't need that at all. Here is a "proof" of sorts: http://mishadof
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Also I would say the answer is better left independent of the runtime environment. Yes you can load Java classes into the JVM. But why not have a serialization format that is independent of the vagaries and specifities of the JVM? Still, ev
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by wellpast 8y ago
To be fair, I "passed" the interview. So he got what he was looking for. I argue however that he was preferring complexity over simplicity anyway.
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Big-O applied to code artifacts-to-manage-over-time is very relevant here. If not the common usage of Big-O, which is in terms of algorithmic steps. But still highly relevant. A system that has O(n) code artifacts for n "business requi
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by wellpast 8y ago
Yes I referred to the correct hemisphere. The right hemisphere is visuospatial. Also, the right hemisphere 'sees' time/process. The left hemisphere puts together contextless symbolic model. So I see where your question comes
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by wellpast 8y ago
I was interviewed recently. I was asked to implement a solution in Java. It was essentially a stack-based computation engine. The interviewer posed a question and there were enough tacit hints for me to see what he really wanted: an "O
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by wellpast 8y ago
I’m really disappointed at the responses in this thread. I’m finding as I go into industry more and more that there’s this philistinism amongst programmers. “Quality code can’t be achieved because look...” “Accurately estimating software is
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by wellpast 8y ago
SEI at Carnegie-Mellon publishes copious resources on software estimation success and practice. What references are you referring to? I more or less gave the pattern — track your hours. I’ve been around the block...from large FANG companies
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by wellpast 8y ago
This is false. Software devs can become very good at estimation if you practice it. Where 2 hours really is 2 hours—and even a week really is a week. I know this from experience but it’s pretty basic to see that it’s true. A senior engineer
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by wellpast 8y ago
This still hardly seems obvious.
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by wellpast 8y ago
> Lucee simplifies technologies like webservices (REST, SOAP, HTTP), ORM (Hibernate)... Can Hibernate be simplified?
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by wellpast 8y ago
Serious question: How much writing have you done? I'm not at all talking about writing about mathematics. I'm talking about the structure of good writing, from fiction to blog writing and everything in between--all of which, whe
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And (good) writing is more an act of mathematics than what most people would construe.
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> Programmers have to know how to write maintainable code... He implies that this somehow falls into “socitech” ability, which it is not. Maintainable code is precise, well-factored code — almost pedantic — which requires an orthogonal (
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Programming Polytheism (2011)(hiltmon.com)
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by wellpast 8y ago
You misunderstood me. I wasn’t implying academics write clean code, just exactly what you’re saying usually it’s small & dirty code. However Dijkstra, of course, always wrote impeccable code.
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by wellpast 8y ago
> The worst professors were completely clueless because they never worked with a large computer program in their life. Completely clueless? I think you mean: clueless about working as a practitioner on a large, messy code base. No?
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“More people have been to Russia than I have”(academic.oup.com)
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I think there are much more to the dynamics than just genetic distributions. For instance, not every male and female are opting into tech careers; only those w/ interest and/or talent are pursuing tech careers--after this filter,
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by wellpast 8y ago
I love the deprecation bc I think we sw engineer’s deserve it to a degree. But I will also say that various software shops I know of large and small are always desperate to find good talent. I’ve hired quite a bit myself and finding capable
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by wellpast 8y ago
Yeah I have no instincts in this because my experience has always been so fewer women than men on the engineering team. So this is totally anecdotal. But the few women I’ve worked with have always been in the upper part of the talent scale,
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by wellpast 8y ago
Your question assumes that the programming talent bell curve for men and women are different, which I wouldn’t expect to be the case.
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by wellpast 8y ago
The idea of Technical Debt, though prevalent, is fallacious, because implicit in the idea is the belief that time-to-delivery is somehow _necessarily_ a function of code quality. But this is not true. Here's why: The first thing to rea
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by wellpast 8y ago
How often does this happen? How about Uber eat the cost if driver and rider don’t agree on the facts. If a driver reports statistically more denied vomit, cut zhim off from any benefits. Isn’t this how, eg, other types of fraud prevention w
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by wellpast 8y ago
I’m not in any JP fan club or anything, but that’s a bizarre assessment. Jordan Peterson is as far from someone who “tells ppl what they want to hear” as you can get. Which is one reason among a few why he is so unlikeable.
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by wellpast 8y ago
But what do you think of his book list?
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by wellpast 8y ago
Had the same thought. On this note, Peterson's reading list [1] is worth pursuing, however I'd dovetail it with less serious books for the sake of levity -- his reading list, like himself, can be pretty serious + severe. [1] http
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by wellpast 8y ago
Brett Easton Ellis recommended Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, so I read it, just finished it -- devoured it, really -- and fully agree w/ his assessment [1]. [1] I just finished reading The House of Mirth, which I had tried r
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by wellpast 8y ago
> the human sex drive isn't restricted to a reproductive context on a way that even the total elimination of a bodily role in reproduction would eliminate the drive or function of the sex act, so the implication claimed her I'd

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