I'll often use sequence diagrams or entity relationship diagrams when I need to explain how a piece of code works (or even just visualize it for myself). I don't tend to be very pedantically correct about it, but having…
This article is from a year ago and change. Have there been any recent developments? I've seen the link going around lately, but I can't tell whether it's because there's news or just because it happens to be going…
Having lived through this winter in the Northeast, I can promise you that SF is beautifully warm all year round. Case in point: it is a place where people use the word "freezing" to describe temperatures 10-20 degrees…
::cries::
There are so many things to love about this speech, but I think my favorite part is this: "the only thing that actually works is not ideological, it is impure, has elements of both arguments and never actually achieves…
Pairing with other experienced programmers works very well for me, and has made me more effective as a programmer. I've also seen our junior developers learn a lot from pairing with each other. In my working…
My understanding is that the Promiscuous Pairing idea was started by real developers working on a real project with tight deadlines. The point of the paper is that, counterintuitively, the approach worked very well _in…
To push the metaphor a bit too far, I think it's more about people realizing they just don't want cake that much. As you say, it's perfectly possible to build a good community if you're willing to put some work into it.…
This is really slick! It's the first realtime, WYSIWYG tool I've used that still feels like a Wiki.
* There are memorable keyboard shortcuts for everything. * It can generate comparatively more code for you. * It's faster, though I fear it's working on losing this advantage. * The autocomplete is smarter, and has a…
Much of the time, I'd agree. But working on a large system in Java, I repeatedly see a few places where Java's boilerplate overwhelms the code I actually care about. Operations on collections: List<String>…
It's suitable, not suitible - normally I wouldn't be so pedantic, but in a thread around the idea of people having to prove they know meanings/spellings/etc, it seems apropriate.
It sounds like your philosophy of testing is about what mine was a year ago. Since then, I think I've modified it in two big ways: 1) I've found that potential bugs, and design problems, are often easier to spot at a…
If you clicked that link, you have not actually disabled your public profile.
http://www.diagrammr.com/edit?key=dFE4tu7OUIr
You're right: calling it "very easy" was overstating things to the point of absurdity. I do think Java's behavior has a big advantage in being easier to understand than the theory behind it is ("less than 10%"), but I…
What iron_ball said, plus a share of "I agree so strongly that I almost want to just repeat everything you said". Alternately, it could mean: "I was reading LiveJournal five minutes ago, and haven't quite finished…
Actually, strictly speaking, Copernicus's system has more epicycles that Ptolemy's (or at least no fewer, depending on how you work out the details of it). Copernicus's big win is getting rid of the equant, easily the…
I'd treat them the same way I do apps on other systems: I'd avoid ones that I was unfamiliar with or that came from an untrusted source, but if a general consensus developed that something was good, I'd go ahead and…
Regarding name-checking of Popper vs. Kuhn: Kuhn and Popper both make interesting observations about the development of science. However, Popper's observations are more directly applicable to the task of actually doing…
Happily, no. If you load up the address in street view, you'll see that she, like a few other people on that stretch of sidewalk, is just sunbathing. (And not naked, for that matter).
Some initial Googling finds one article putting malpractice claims at about half a percent of the total cost of health care in the U.S. ("The cost of defending U.S. malpractice claims is estimated at $6.5 billion in…
But a big part of the system described there is about authenticating people as being registered voters, which is what extension said the prerequisite was for fair internet voting.
I predict that this phenomenon will be connected with the fact that most people buy the same few bestsellers from Amazon and rent the same few big hits from Netflix, will be dubbed "The Fat Body", and will become the…
Note that the article is from 2003.
I'll often use sequence diagrams or entity relationship diagrams when I need to explain how a piece of code works (or even just visualize it for myself). I don't tend to be very pedantically correct about it, but having…
This article is from a year ago and change. Have there been any recent developments? I've seen the link going around lately, but I can't tell whether it's because there's news or just because it happens to be going…
Having lived through this winter in the Northeast, I can promise you that SF is beautifully warm all year round. Case in point: it is a place where people use the word "freezing" to describe temperatures 10-20 degrees…
::cries::
There are so many things to love about this speech, but I think my favorite part is this: "the only thing that actually works is not ideological, it is impure, has elements of both arguments and never actually achieves…
Pairing with other experienced programmers works very well for me, and has made me more effective as a programmer. I've also seen our junior developers learn a lot from pairing with each other. In my working…
My understanding is that the Promiscuous Pairing idea was started by real developers working on a real project with tight deadlines. The point of the paper is that, counterintuitively, the approach worked very well _in…
To push the metaphor a bit too far, I think it's more about people realizing they just don't want cake that much. As you say, it's perfectly possible to build a good community if you're willing to put some work into it.…
This is really slick! It's the first realtime, WYSIWYG tool I've used that still feels like a Wiki.
* There are memorable keyboard shortcuts for everything. * It can generate comparatively more code for you. * It's faster, though I fear it's working on losing this advantage. * The autocomplete is smarter, and has a…
Much of the time, I'd agree. But working on a large system in Java, I repeatedly see a few places where Java's boilerplate overwhelms the code I actually care about. Operations on collections: List<String>…
It's suitable, not suitible - normally I wouldn't be so pedantic, but in a thread around the idea of people having to prove they know meanings/spellings/etc, it seems apropriate.
It sounds like your philosophy of testing is about what mine was a year ago. Since then, I think I've modified it in two big ways: 1) I've found that potential bugs, and design problems, are often easier to spot at a…
If you clicked that link, you have not actually disabled your public profile.
http://www.diagrammr.com/edit?key=dFE4tu7OUIr
You're right: calling it "very easy" was overstating things to the point of absurdity. I do think Java's behavior has a big advantage in being easier to understand than the theory behind it is ("less than 10%"), but I…
What iron_ball said, plus a share of "I agree so strongly that I almost want to just repeat everything you said". Alternately, it could mean: "I was reading LiveJournal five minutes ago, and haven't quite finished…
Actually, strictly speaking, Copernicus's system has more epicycles that Ptolemy's (or at least no fewer, depending on how you work out the details of it). Copernicus's big win is getting rid of the equant, easily the…
I'd treat them the same way I do apps on other systems: I'd avoid ones that I was unfamiliar with or that came from an untrusted source, but if a general consensus developed that something was good, I'd go ahead and…
Regarding name-checking of Popper vs. Kuhn: Kuhn and Popper both make interesting observations about the development of science. However, Popper's observations are more directly applicable to the task of actually doing…
Happily, no. If you load up the address in street view, you'll see that she, like a few other people on that stretch of sidewalk, is just sunbathing. (And not naked, for that matter).
Some initial Googling finds one article putting malpractice claims at about half a percent of the total cost of health care in the U.S. ("The cost of defending U.S. malpractice claims is estimated at $6.5 billion in…
But a big part of the system described there is about authenticating people as being registered voters, which is what extension said the prerequisite was for fair internet voting.
I predict that this phenomenon will be connected with the fact that most people buy the same few bestsellers from Amazon and rent the same few big hits from Netflix, will be dubbed "The Fat Body", and will become the…
Note that the article is from 2003.