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541.
by wglb 2y ago
> Why would you not focus on writing OO code in an OO language It should be the best solution to the problem direct whether or not use of OO is best, not the language.
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by wglb 2y ago
Are there large code bases that he has written that we know anything about?
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by wglb 2y ago
It is a bit weird. However, a friend of mine was a professional Smalltalk programmer. He claims that his median line count of methods, over his 17 year career, was 4. It is harder to do in other languages--it seems that C would be on the or
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by wglb 2y ago
I'm pretty much in agreement with you on this, however I'm always aware of the possibility of comments being bugs. If code gets moved around, there is the very real possibility that the comment is now attached to the wrong method
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by wglb 2y ago
I often abbreviate that to "Psychosomatic Complexity" because more complex code is likely to give the programmer a headache.
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by wglb 2y ago
> Forget about the code itself and focus on the results. This reminds me of what Dijkstra said (paraphrasing): the computation is the important thing, not the code.
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by wglb 2y ago
Yes, Uncle Bob is certainly capable of being pedantic. A friend of mine, a Smalltalk Consultant, partnered with him for a while. "With Uncle Bob, it's his way or the highway." His clean code work is certainly pretty dogmatic.
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by wglb 2y ago
The paper: http://biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/10.1101/2025.01.29.635495
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Evolving pigment palette of European skin, eyes and hair as seen through old DNA(phys.org)
2 points by wglb 2y ago|1 comments
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by wglb 2y ago
Article in PhotoKeys: https://phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/137624/
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'Devil'-like flower with 'horns' found in Texas is new species(phys.org)
3 points by wglb 2y ago|1 comments
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by wglb 2y ago
Link to Journal of Fluid Mechanics article: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-fluid-mec...
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High-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool(phys.org)
1 points by wglb 2y ago|1 comments
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A single protein may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language(phys.org)
2 points by wglb 2y ago|0 comments
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by wglb 2y ago
Paper https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.20...
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Waste-based perovskite solar cell achieves 21.39% energy efficiency(techxplore.com)
50 points by wglb 2y ago|34 comments
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by wglb 2y ago
Paper: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70045
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Orchid's nutrient theft from fungi shows photosynthesis-parasitism continuum(phys.org)
105 points by wglb 2y ago|13 comments
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Static electricity depends on materials' contact history(phys.org)
44 points by wglb 2y ago|9 comments
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Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)(250bpm.com)
1 points by wglb 2y ago|2 comments
561.
by wglb 2y ago
Nature Communications paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56577-4
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Biologists discover a new type of control over RNA splicing(phys.org)
15 points by wglb 2y ago|3 comments
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by wglb 2y ago
Link to paper: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.20...
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Butterfly wings inspire new imaging technique for cancer diagnosis(medicalxpress.com)
4 points by wglb 2y ago|1 comments
565.
by wglb 2y ago
Research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09154
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First pulsar discovered by the GCGPS survey(phys.org)
2 points by wglb 2y ago|1 comments
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by wglb 2y ago
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56155-8
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The inner ear of Neanderthals reveals clues about their enigmatic origin(phys.org)
4 points by wglb 2y ago|1 comments
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Possible evidence of windborne H5N1 viral infections in chickens(phys.org)
2 points by wglb 2y ago|0 comments
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Indiana Jones jailbreak approach highlights the vulnerabilities of existing LLMs(techxplore.com)
5 points by wglb 2y ago|1 comments

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