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null | Gotebe | null | I was only objecting your idea of calling "high performers" people who argue and don't get work done
> At the same time, a bunch of high performers all working together tends to be a disaster in my experience as they fight and argue over mundane implementation details.
Those are non-performers, pure and simple.
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null | Uncle_Vanyar | null | This is commonly known as ["Sturgeon's law"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law).
We don't notice the crappy European/American developers because of selection bias: on Reddit and in our professional lives we only ever meet those 5-10% of candidates who made the cut. | null | 0 | 1492720551 | False | 0 | dgj5kf3 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj588o | null | 1494239673 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pakoito | null | I meeeean https://github.com/pakoito/JavaSealedUnions | null | 1 | 1492720650 | False | 0 | dgj5nre | t3_66gn8p | null | null | t1_dgj23fd | null | 1494239718 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Veedrac | null | If you buy into the Java ideology (and I posit that Java programmers that like Java generally do), that is generally bad code. The arguments "should not" be publically exposed like that, unless you're using extremely trivial immutable types, which means unpacking and matching on constants is not that simple.
Not to sa... | null | 0 | 1492720789 | False | 0 | dgj5sb4 | t3_66gn8p | null | null | t1_dgik8bl | null | 1494239779 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LucasThePatator | null | That's just not true. In the US or Europe, 95% of people graduating with an engineering degree aren't genius engineers but 95% are at least employable. | null | 0 | 1492720818 | 1492721002 | 0 | dgj5t8j | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj588o | null | 1494239791 | 50 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | only_nidaleesin | null | It's perfect for AWS Lambda for example. All the other language options for Lambda have some pretty notable downsides. | null | 0 | 1492720893 | False | 0 | dgj5vqe | t3_66d6w5 | null | null | t1_dgiy4az | null | 1494239827 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | Regimardyl | null | Considering the syntax for pattern matching in OCaml and SML is `match «…» with «…»`, it very likely did. | null | 0 | 1492721050 | False | 0 | dgj6100 | t3_66gn8p | null | null | t1_dgipssv | null | 1494239897 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | thepotatochronicles | null | Ohhhhh. Wow, I can't believe we don't have that. Huh.
Thanks for the example. | null | 0 | 1492721060 | False | 0 | dgj61bt | t3_66gn8p | null | null | t1_dgj5ba4 | null | 1494239901 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | egladysh | null | I personally don't buy the "many applications" argument at all. If you are moving on to give someone a week long exercise, you don't just forget about it with not a single comment/feedback... if you have too many applications, come up with a quick vetting process... I don't think too many applications give you any righ... | null | 0 | 1492721154 | False | 0 | dgj64i7 | t3_66b4n7 | null | null | t1_dgi8h8k | null | 1494239944 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tugrul_ddr | null | world will get better when this is applied for all world politicians.
a developer just bugs, correctable error
a politician ??? can anyone tell me a politician error that was corrected?
I heard India is good at math, so should be same for programming. | null | 0 | 1492721155 | False | 0 | dgj64jj | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494239944 | -30 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CodeMonkey1 | null | Something being "generally considered an anti-pattern" doesn't make it actually wrong in all cases. The author's guidance on when to use object polymorphism vs visitor/pattern matching is, IMO, sound.
If the behavior is intrinsic to whatever the class is modeling, then of course you want that behavior inside the clas... | null | 0 | 1492721271 | False | 0 | dgj68dt | t3_66gn8p | null | null | t1_dgiwr5o | null | 1494239998 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | html_isnt_programing | null | Intellisense has ruined me, I would have difficulty writing any code that required a class I didn't use every day. | null | 0 | 1492721542 | False | 0 | dgj6hhf | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj4y64 | null | 1494240121 | 93 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flamingspew | null | I think what we'll see in terms of systems design will be machine learning to generate curated lists from UI templates and systems templates. So, "cross reference my bank statement with my expense reports" would look at verified solutions similar to this in the database of all human requests, and show workflows that mi... | null | 0 | 1492721624 | 1492722221 | 0 | dgj6k86 | t3_66fw85 | null | null | t3_66fw85 | null | 1494240163 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hvidgaard | null | You don't have to decide what to persist at compile time. Simply use appropriate logging constructs, and let runtime setup decide at what granularity you need to review. A "nop" call is cheap compared to the context they are called in. | null | 0 | 1492721664 | False | 0 | dgj6ll4 | t3_66ftqf | null | null | t1_dgil3kp | null | 1494240181 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Astrrum | null | I really doubt that. | null | 0 | 1492721782 | False | 0 | dgj6pha | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj588o | null | 1494240233 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Socrates666 | null | You seem...defensive. | null | 0 | 1492721855 | False | 0 | dgj6rxr | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj64jj | null | 1494240266 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | t_durdy | null | I'd like to see the test. Not only to see if it's fair, but also to take it for myself. | null | 0 | 1492721880 | False | 0 | dgj6ssi | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494240278 | 348 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | incons1stent | null | Why was the other [thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/66hpqs/less_than_5_of_indian_engineering_students_are/?st=j1qw2taj&sh=ae8a92f5) about the same subject locked? | null | 0 | 1492721942 | False | 0 | dgj6uvj | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494240306 | 29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tugrul_ddr | null | tell me a corrected politics bug | null | 0 | 1492721989 | False | 0 | dgj6wg2 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj6rxr | null | 1494240327 | -24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | gradual_alzheimers | null | okay you can agree with the current abstraction model, but the author has a point that we want to know things that require action, that's my take away I guess. | null | 0 | 1492722082 | False | 0 | dgj6zhk | t3_66ftqf | null | null | t1_dgihwtn | null | 1494240368 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Socrates666 | null | What?
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null | Fylwind | null | It's the classic expression problem. Do you want data to be extensible (inheritance/interfaces/…), or do you want the operations to be extensible (sum types)? There is no right answer for every situation. | null | 0 | 1492722261 | False | 0 | dgj759f | t3_66gn8p | null | null | t1_dgiwr5o | null | 1494240445 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | ReadyplayerTwo | null | "Tell me corrected politics bug" | null | 0 | 1492722369 | False | 0 | dgj78nk | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj71na | null | 1494240491 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | alexmace | null | Have you been to university in Europe? At least in the UK, this is bullshit. My year at the University of Nottingham had 300 doing Computer Science, certainly way more than 5% came out with passing grades and yet they were unable to program. | null | 0 | 1492722417 | False | 0 | dgj7a9u | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj5t8j | null | 1494240512 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | 50653 | null | Definitely surprised that you're building on Windows and you're a fan of prebuilt binaries. For every library you have to worry about finding the right /MD vs /MT builds (a lot of libraries don't ship with both), plus debug vs release builds, plus I think some other compilation options can be incompatible.
Whereas if ... | null | 0 | 1492722476 | False | 0 | dgj7c7k | t3_66ihh2 | null | null | t1_dgj4w0s | null | 1494240539 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sf2platinum | null | Yes, whenever I've figured out what they're for. In the meantime they just get named after their address
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null | Phobos15 | null | Apparently if a thread is too popular mods lock it. I mean, heaven forbid people discuss something they are interested in. | null | 0 | 1492722510 | False | 0 | dgj7dbf | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj6uvj | null | 1494240554 | 56 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Der_tolle_Emil | null | It's an interesting approach but it isn't necessarily better than what we have used up until now. "Wake me in the middle of the night" is extremely relative. Usually I tend to be rather chatty with INFO levels as well because it's often very hard to reproduce a problem; If I don't have a log where I can at least trace ... | null | 0 | 1492722525 | False | 0 | dgj7dty | t3_66ftqf | null | null | t3_66ftqf | null | 1494240562 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LucasThePatator | null | I went to university in Europe. They weren't able to program Windows by themselves but most of them were qualified enough to be hired as junior engineers with still a lot to learn. | null | 0 | 1492722526 | False | 0 | dgj7dve | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7a9u | null | 1494240563 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Enamex | null | I was pretty confused as you mentioned 'cmacro' as if it was a different thing from the link. Hadn't checked the link yet to know it's actually a... derivative work? Library using cmacro?
Pretty neat either way. | null | 0 | 1492722555 | False | 0 | dgj7esr | t3_66gj40 | null | null | t1_dgimkxh | null | 1494240575 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | istarian | null | Probably just a case of limited real experience. It's one thing to code a school assignment and another to make usable software. Also entirely possible, even likely that a good programmer is more than just learning. I.e. if you're lacking the right aptitudes and tendencies you will always struggle somewhat.
P.S. ... | null | 0 | 1492722557 | 1492722726 | 0 | dgj7eui | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494240575 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | [deleted] | null | even with these tools they usually fail... | null | 0 | 1492722604 | False | 0 | dgj7gcq | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj4y64 | null | 1494240596 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | puradawid | null | Agree, its not an excuse - I am just trying to imagine a problem that they are struggling with.
I believe no one is just a prick and doesn't care about their candidates, its jut "oh well and we have another, better application! Oh, and another! Ping Ping It's The Uncle Bob!". Just made this up but I hope that you kno... | null | 0 | 1492722636 | False | 0 | dgj7hbv | t3_66b4n7 | null | null | t1_dgj64i7 | null | 1494240608 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | alexmace | null | I don't mean they couldn't program windows by themselves. I mean they couldn't program *at all* | null | 0 | 1492722673 | False | 0 | dgj7ij2 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7dve | null | 1494240625 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | unpopular_opinion | null | Why does Reddit value ignorance so much? | null | 0 | 1492722694 | False | 0 | dgj7j8w | t3_66i327 | null | null | t1_dgj3eh1 | null | 1494240634 | -33 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | budrick | null | I know it sounds like a case of memory failure but yes, Win3.11 in 2001. The room was upgraded a term later, but it was a shock to find at the time! | null | 0 | 1492722711 | False | 0 | dgj7jsh | t3_66d6g1 | null | null | t1_dgj4lch | null | 1494240641 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | biocomputation | null | It's funny because contemporary computer science / computer programming would be SO different if this had been a requirement from the start. Note that this isn't a criticism of how things are/were done. Sometimes it takes a lot of revisions to really get at the heart of a problem. | null | 0 | 1492722722 | False | 0 | dgj7k6i | t3_66ihh2 | null | null | t3_66ihh2 | null | 1494240646 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LucasThePatator | null | I really doubt that people with 5 years of university in an IT field couldn't program at all but hey. | null | 0 | 1492722741 | False | 0 | dgj7ksh | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7ij2 | null | 1494240654 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | puradawid | null | ... after 2hrs of argument, shouting and similar: this is racist! | null | 0 | 1492722742 | False | 0 | dgj7kt1 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494240654 | -12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | staticassert | null | I don't really agree that this is 'bad code' or not idiomatic. How would you write this code right now without extending the Point type, which is meant simply to hold data? | null | 0 | 1492722745 | False | 0 | dgj7kx1 | t3_66gn8p | null | null | t1_dgj5sb4 | null | 1494240656 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | biocomputation | null | > Edit: Configuration soup is imo one of the biggest failures with modern software development.
FTFY!
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null | JshWright | null | You could write it, you just couldn't compile it... | null | 0 | 1492722808 | False | 0 | dgj7mxw | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj4y64 | null | 1494240683 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Phobos15 | null | I would say it makes you better. Programming should not be about raw memorization skills. | null | 0 | 1492722808 | False | 0 | dgj7my3 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj6hhf | null | 1494240683 | 131 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | biocomputation | null | >> Definitely surprised that you're building on Windows and you're a fan of prebuilt binaries.
Definitely surprised as well. | null | 0 | 1492722836 | False | 0 | dgj7num | t3_66ihh2 | null | null | t1_dgj7c7k | null | 1494240696 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | Phobos15 | null | How many would be capable if they had some on the job training? (most people hired entry level get on the job training) | null | 0 | 1492722879 | False | 0 | dgj7p89 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7a9u | null | 1494240715 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | puradawid | null | Why even bother logging? :) | null | 0 | 1492722943 | False | 0 | dgj7ra1 | t3_66ftqf | null | null | t3_66ftqf | null | 1494240741 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | based_green | null | shocking... | null | 0 | 1492722977 | False | 0 | dgj7sdd | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494240757 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | scraberous | null | I've hired thes guys, I think most problems arise because they have to exaggerate their skill level to get a look-in.
Unfortunately (using my favourite analogy) being able to draw a series of alternating black and white squares does not actually make you an expert chess player. | null | 0 | 1492722986 | False | 0 | dgj7so2 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494240760 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LucasThePatator | null | Indeed ! | null | 0 | 1492723014 | False | 0 | dgj7tkw | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7p08 | null | 1494240772 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | computology___ | null | Without the questions and the specific method of "assessment" used there's no way to see if this claim has any value.
We all like to think that "most" people who graduated from a university with a computer science degree can't program, but that statement is not fine-grained or precise enough to be tested.
Program wha... | null | 0 | 1492723019 | False | 0 | dgj7tr5 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494240774 | 28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | seizer | null | I also went to university in England for a 3 year comp sci degree, and I saw the same; graduates with 2:2 or even 2:1 degrees who couldn't program. They got by with a combination of "sharing" code with more talented friends, and taking as many non-programming modules as possible. | null | 0 | 1492723038 | False | 0 | dgj7udj | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7ksh | null | 1494240783 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | WittyOriginalName | null | Start writing in notepad++. Seriously. You'll learn the language much better. | null | 0 | 1492723054 | False | 0 | dgj7uw3 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj6hhf | null | 1494240790 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | stark0788 | null | the education they receive certainly is different than here in the US ... different as in, not as qualified. I work with SEVERAL off shore Indian developers, and there is a huge gap in skill / knowledge between them and employees bred here in the US. It's not that they're stupid, it just boils down to what they were ta... | null | 0 | 1492723055 | False | 0 | dgj7uxl | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494240791 | 93 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cowardlydragon | null | From what I can see logging is inherently a side-effect, so it isn't pure functional programming, unless you calculated them appending to a side buffer and then only appending to the logfile on function return....
... but that will mean the log will be much less accurate on system abend.
Functional neckbeards, how is... | null | 0 | 1492723086 | False | 0 | dgj7vyr | t3_66ftqf | null | null | t1_dgiaknp | null | 1494240804 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LucasThePatator | null | I can understand some people doing that but 95% ?! | null | 0 | 1492723152 | False | 0 | dgj7y5a | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7udj | null | 1494240833 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | programmingguy | null | And most of these are the "best and brightest" that come in with H1-bs and L1s | null | 1 | 1492723185 | False | 0 | dgj7zc6 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494240849 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | steego | null | What does employable even mean?
Does it mean 95% are able to find someone who's willing to hire them, or does it mean you're willing to hire 95% of them? If it's the former, than nearly 100% of the people who've come past me are employable, because nearly all had an employment history. If it's the latter, then the n... | null | 0 | 1492723191 | False | 0 | dgj7zl0 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj5t8j | null | 1494240852 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cowardlydragon | null | Natural language is inherently ambiguous and context-dependent.
YOUR specific meaning, down to neuron associations in your brain, are obvious.... | null | 0 | 1492723200 | False | 0 | dgj7zvj | t3_66ftqf | null | null | t1_dgiansk | null | 1494240856 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | f00mado | null | Username checks out | null | 0 | 1492723230 | False | 0 | dgj80ui | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj6hhf | null | 1494240869 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | checks_out_bot | null | It's funny because html\_isnt\_programing's username is very applicable to their comment.
^^*beep* ^^*bop* ^^if ^^you ^^hate ^^me, ^^reply ^^with ^^"stop". ^^If ^^you ^^just ^^got ^^smart, ^^reply ^^with ^^"start". | null | 0 | 1492723246 | False | 0 | dgj81e0 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj80ui | null | 1494240877 | -12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cowardlydragon | null | and then there is trace, intended for firehose-level detail... | null | 0 | 1492723249 | False | 0 | dgj81gh | t3_66ftqf | null | null | t1_dgihjw2 | null | 1494240877 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Shaddox | null | Computer science isn't about programming. Anyone can spend an afternoon cranking a tech-stack-of-choice tutorial. Getting the basic math down and understanding how shit actually works? Not so much.
This article is pure horse shit anyway, just reading it pisses me off. Employer expectations are usually unrealistic. The... | null | 0 | 1492723264 | False | 0 | dgj81yj | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7f9g | null | 1494240885 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ponchedeburro | null | I understand what you are saying. But what would be the purpose? Not using the tools available to you to make things easier would be stupid.
That is why I'm using a high level language instead of writing assembly. | null | 0 | 1492723297 | False | 0 | dgj8330 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7uw3 | null | 1494240899 | 36 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ckreon | null | If you're locked into the Politically Correct distortion, you can't say true things because it might be offensive. | null | 1 | 1492723390 | False | 0 | dgj8645 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7dbf | null | 1494240940 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | LucasThePatator | null | Precise numbers are irrelevant. There's not a significant portion of people with IT degrees that cannot produce enough code to be hired for an entry level job right out of uni. That's at least true in France. If that were true, french software companies would have said something long ago.
Edit : And I meant employabl... | null | 0 | 1492723454 | False | 0 | dgj884q | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7zl0 | null | 1494240967 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | egladysh | null | If I personally let something like that to anyone, it'd mean I don't care actually... :) | null | 0 | 1492723493 | 1492725757 | 0 | dgj89eu | t3_66b4n7 | null | null | t1_dgj7hbv | null | 1494240983 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Gicaa | null | start | null | 0 | 1492723500 | False | 0 | dgj89mc | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj81e0 | null | 1494240987 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | biocomputation | null | White guy here. I've written tons of terrible code in my day, and I've seen terrible code from people of every sex, color, race, and religion. Someone's skin color has zero relationship to their ability to write good code.
I'm also against H1-B for a variety of reasons.
It bothers me that the richest tech companies o... | null | 0 | 1492723523 | False | 0 | dgj8ae8 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494240997 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cowardlydragon | null | employees are difficult to fire...
team members are cogs to be swapped out. | null | 0 | 1492723550 | False | 0 | dgj8b7i | t3_66ftqf | null | null | t1_dgifj8t | null | 1494241008 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | programmingguy | null | Same pinch. When I programmed in GW BASIC, QBASIC, Borland C/C++ editor in the 90s while in high school, no intellisense, no syntax error highlighting... had to compile everything to find out and got better because of it. Now I struggle with all the flavors of Javascript on a text editor and there's no compiling but so... | null | 0 | 1492723559 | False | 0 | dgj8biy | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj6hhf | null | 1494241012 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Veedrac | null | Typical Java uses getters instead of attribute access. Whilst you could easily argue that in *this case* a public final attribute suffices, this is by design not the common case in Java-style code, so all you've done is added a bunch of special-cases to the language for use in niche scenarios. | null | 0 | 1492723630 | False | 0 | dgj8dqq | t3_66gn8p | null | null | t1_dgj7kx1 | null | 1494241042 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | JshWright | null | IT often has little to do with programming. | null | 0 | 1492723709 | False | 0 | dgj8g8p | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7ksh | null | 1494241075 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | okiujh | null | what if the same line of code is used in more than one setting? in one setting the error can wait for tomorrow and on the other have to wake up | null | 0 | 1492723761 | False | 0 | dgj8hvw | t3_66ftqf | null | null | t3_66ftqf | null | 1494241097 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | KennyGaming | null | Holy shit why are you so angry? You literally sound like a movie villain giving a shitting monologue. | null | 0 | 1492723788 | False | 0 | dgj8iqi | t3_66i327 | null | null | t1_dgj130g | null | 1494241108 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LucasThePatator | null | Programming Degree, I don't know. I'm french, I don't really know how you english-speaking people call your degrees. | null | 0 | 1492723805 | False | 0 | dgj8j8v | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj8g8p | null | 1494241116 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | swan--ronson | null | Sure, if one's implementation requires that much involvement, but what if I'm simply forwarding data to different devices? That surely doesn't require that much CPU-bound logic | null | 0 | 1492723814 | False | 0 | dgj8jin | t3_66d6w5 | null | null | t1_dgiydta | null | 1494241119 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | alexmace | null | 3 years in the U.K.
University of Nottingham is supposed to be a top level university in the U.K. too.
You could pretty much get through those 3 years learning nothing about programming. Coursework in the first year was marked by computer program, you just edited it until it gave you enough points - no requirement t... | null | 0 | 1492723837 | False | 0 | dgj8k8l | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7ksh | null | 1494241129 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | staticassert | null | I don't think it's uncommon *at all* to have classes around data with nothing but getters, and in fact this is good practice in Java in many cases. In these cases, rather than a bunch of if statements or a switch statements, a pattern is a far more concise way to switch on the internal values.
I write Java every day. ... | null | 0 | 1492723858 | False | 0 | dgj8kwf | t3_66gn8p | null | null | t1_dgj8dqq | null | 1494241137 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | JshWright | null | Ah, sorry, "IT" or "Information Technology" is more about designing broader systems using various application and tools, not creating those applications. | null | 0 | 1492723912 | False | 0 | dgj8mlu | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj8j8v | null | 1494241160 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | greyfade | null | > It's one thing to code a school assignment and another to make usable software.
There's a difference between this and ">66% could not even write code that compiles."
It's one thing for them to simply lack real-world experience, which should be expected of any university graduate, and it's quite another for t... | null | 0 | 1492723922 | False | 0 | dgj8mxn | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7eui | null | 1494241165 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | alexmace | null | Yes, and the silly notion the UK has that everyone should go to university | null | 0 | 1492723939 | False | 0 | dgj8ng3 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7p08 | null | 1494241172 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LucasThePatator | null | So how would you call that ? A programming degree ? I know it's not CS either. | null | 0 | 1492723955 | False | 0 | dgj8nzi | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj8mlu | null | 1494241179 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | grauenwolf | null | Ha!
Maybe in other engineering disciplines, but for computer programming the vast majority of them are still having trouble with basic loops.
They're fine with the rote memorization tasks, but ask them to do anything useful and well, that's why FizzBuzz is so important. | null | 0 | 1492723964 | False | 0 | dgj8o94 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj5t8j | null | 1494241183 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | greenspans | null | At our shop they're replacing more of us every month with India teams. Meet your replacements guys. It's demoralizing.
* India culture is different. You don't talk back, you don't do basic sanity checks on your superior's orders.
* India teams will not do "best effort". If one thing is unclear in a list of items they... | null | 0 | 1492723966 | 1492725388 | 0 | dgj8ob4 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj4y64 | null | 1494241183 | 299 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | alexmace | null | Little more than those who skipped university and went straight into an entry level job. | null | 0 | 1492723996 | False | 0 | dgj8pb2 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj7p89 | null | 1494241196 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | smookykins | null | Anyone who has worked with an H-1B diversity budget hire knows this. Except the department manager, who got a business degree and has no knowledge of software engineering. | null | 0 | 1492724002 | False | 0 | dgj8pi5 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t3_66kb3c | null | 1494241200 | 52 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hc5duke | null | Username checks out | null | 0 | 1492724020 | False | 0 | dgj8q2a | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj81e0 | null | 1494241208 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | JshWright | null | Generally a degree focused on software development would be "Computer Science".
That isn't to say there aren't schools with various names for the same thing... There is no standardized name. | null | 0 | 1492724031 | False | 0 | dgj8qfw | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj8nzi | null | 1494241214 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | checks_out_bot | null | Yes it does.
^^*beep* ^^*bop* ^^if ^^you ^^hate ^^me, ^^reply ^^with ^^"stop". ^^If ^^you ^^just ^^got ^^smart, ^^reply ^^with ^^"start". | null | 0 | 1492724038 | False | 0 | dgj8qp2 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj8q2a | null | 1494241217 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | poopcasso | null | No its not stupid. Sure you can make a buncha knives if you know how to operate that machine that does it. But you're a more attractive and valuable knifesmith of you actually have done thousands of knifes by hand. And your expertise will be needed to make the knives the machine can't. | null | 0 | 1492724062 | False | 0 | dgj8rjc | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj8330 | null | 1494241228 | -11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Mechakoopa | null | Don't encourage it! | null | 0 | 1492724068 | False | 0 | dgj8rq2 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj89mc | null | 1494241231 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | wolscott | null | This is a really cool little guide. Thanks for sharing it.
If you are the author of this guide, there is a mistake where example 6 is mistakenly labelled as example 5. | null | 0 | 1492724078 | False | 0 | dgj8s1o | t3_66jrex | null | null | t3_66jrex | null | 1494241235 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LucasThePatator | null | That frankly unbelievable. I that is true, how are software companies surviving ? | null | 0 | 1492724079 | False | 0 | dgj8s33 | t3_66kb3c | null | null | t1_dgj8o94 | null | 1494241235 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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