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ker2x
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but only programmer know him :))
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homoiconic
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> > The first is that everything is an object > No. I was going to point out Java’s great problem in this regard, but it seemed orthogonal to the OP’s point. Somehow I knew that it would come up, it is one of the great irritations of working with Java. > > In languages like Smalltalk, everything is a...
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GMNightmare
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You must have pretty bad top students comparatively then. I'm sure you're actually just blowing smoke though, thinking you are one. Better programmers are not just 10 times better than you, but 100s. They'll finish problems you take weeks and they will do it in hours. This is the same with me. I'll do what you would t...
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lbzip2
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Look up ISO C99 6.2.3 *Name spaces of identifiers*. Basically, `kref` in `struct kref` is a *structure tag*, while `kref` following the asterisk is an *ordinary identifier*. They are in different namespaces in C. Note that scope is different; for that, see 6.2.1. `struct kref` must have file scope to make any sense, w...
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ItsAPuppeh
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> The point is they're only cryptic the first time. I think PERL users said the same thing before people started to jump ship to other languages that were note write-only.
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GMNightmare
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I thought I added an "in my opinion" clearly somewhere in there... but with review it seems it didn't get in. However, statistically, most are, and most graduates are actually very poor programmers.
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pthreadunixman
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> Obfuscation is not intended to be a security feature, but it can add an element of detection and protection against casual probing. So. In other words, it's meant to be a security feature.
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akdas
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See, I never said it's necessary to get a formal education. It just lets you do exactly the things you would have done anyway, but it forces you to spend all your time on it (since you're *required* to do it), and gives you plenty of resources when you need help. > I taught myself a lot of things that I never took ...
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yogthos
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I think it's far more important for the language to clearly state what it's doing as opposed to how. Imperative languages are generally very good at making clear what each individual line of code does, but the overall meaning tends to be rather less obvious.
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Well, we usually call the (A ? B : C) operator "ternary," so I figured (SGN A ? B : C : D) would be "quaternary." But probably nobody's ever actually called it that.
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iLiekCaeks
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Then adjust your sarcasm detector.
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bluepaper
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So I'm trying to grow out of my cowboy programming roots from hacking together random PHP pages. I'm not a computer science graduate, engineering undergraduate actually, but I'd love to get into systems and control programming. I've purchased a raft of books recently including Head First Design Patterns. I've learnt lo...
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AStrangeStranger
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Even though we are fluent in the language – things change as new versions are released, it is at that point when it'd be nice if it was easier for those less than fluent in the language (Or when you encounter someone who uses some obscure feature you haven't as yet seen)
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RayNbow
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Why? The method body of each overload is exactly the same. Sure, depending on the type, different implementations of the LINQ operators are called, but hey, that's what polymorphism is. I mean, we also don't have to write the following in C#: static string ToStringExclamation(Foo x) { return x.ToString() ...
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AStrangeStranger
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thanks
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five9a2
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It is pathetic that the Fortran language committee has managed to miss the point so completely that that the best way to write a library for Fortran users in 2011 is still to write it in C and offer bindings. Without a reasonable dynamic dispatch system and the ability to store function pointers (yeah, I know, it's pos...
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grelphy
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Why would anyone ever port SWT to anything? It shouldn't have been written in Java, to say nothing of anything else.
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Timmmmbob
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Spoiler: It's slow. Especially if you don't pixel-align all your operations.
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killerstorm
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There are different kinds of programming -- sometimes you need to figure things out, sometimes you need to program the damn thing. I find the later much more enjoyable. Even though I like hard tasks, when your output is two lines of code per day it sucks.
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yoda17
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> The work leading to this course was motivated by wondering why, in software engineering, there are some people who are one or two orders of magnitude more useful than most people. [The Programmer's Stone](http://the-programmers-stone.com/the-original-talks/day-1-thinking-about-thinking/) Happens in engineering t...
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berlinbrown
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So, this is the guy we should blame. We found him! Get him!
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nickik
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Nice example of how schools suck. Search the pattern instead of write the code. Total bullshit. Sure the people who skiped the class didn't like it, thats because the it NOTHING to do with acctually beeing a code programmer or software engineer. You could teach ever idiot to look for patterns in the code does not make ...
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xshoppyx
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I'll provide an example from my experience at Cal Poly. We have 2 four-hundred level classes, programming languages I and II, in which we write an interpreter in the first class and a compiler in the second class. The assignments would build off of each other, and at the end of the quarter the interpreter or compiler w...
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yoda17
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I've seen a mechanical engineers out produce a small team of software engineers by autocoding their matlab model controller.
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All these top ten lists, they always fail to list the one thing that matters the most. Spend as much time reading books about programming as you spend programming. Practice is only half of it, studying is the other half. You don't learn how to be a good programmer by repeating your own bad habits, or copying other pe...
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00kyle00
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for exposition: PERFORM VARYING WS-BOTTLE-NUM FROM 98 BY -1 UNTIL WS-BOTTLE-NUM < 2 END-PERFORM for (WSBOTTLENUM = 98; WSBOTTLENUM < 2; WSBOTTLENUM--) { } Erm, why? I for one would rather have a language that is more rooted in math then natural language (which is frigging...
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akdas
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> You must have pretty bad top students comparatively then. I'm sure you're actually just blowing smoke though, thinking you are one. Better programmers are not just 10 times better than you, but 100s. They'll finish problems you take weeks and they will do it in hours. Nah, I'm not a top student. I don't know what...
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fjord_piner
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> > What do you gain with these cryptic symbols > The point is they're only cryptic the first time. This makes as much sense as saying that reading a foreign language is only cryptic the first time.
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seydar
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What do you recommend smaller projects do to get funding for bug bounties? I would absolutely LOVE to see bug bounties as a viable manner for people to make money doing OSS, but how can smaller projects get money?
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seydar
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I went to my school because I thought they had a good CS program (University of Michigan). It's more pre-industry than anything else, and while it's great that they're focused with getting me a job, I'd like some fucking theory in my classes. An algorithms class should have us coming up with algorithms and analyzing th...
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GMNightmare
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Quite nice, compiler courses are probably THE BEST courses in the degree. Unfortunately, there are dozens of others full of BS you have take. Often cited as the only valuable course of their degree by some. In real world value, there is, actual little practical use for the course. It is an amazing course none-the-less...
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akdas
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Interesting. That's a good response. I would still say that as a first step, an MCE can be very useful, as it lets you play around with the fundamentals, and I happen to love Scheme, so for a learning exercise, I would love to do all of the above in Scheme, but I understand exactly what you mean. There's definitely a ...
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seydar
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After 10 years, you will become enlightened and become the greatest hamburger flipper ever.
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Game_Ender
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To those who didn't pick up on this while reading the article English is Andrey's second language, so sometimes his phrasing comes off as a little blunt or awkward. I still think his gets his point across very clearly. I just wish PVS Studio had better linux support.
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Synackaon
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Brainfuck?
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perciva
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Depends on the project, but "ask your users to donate" is always one option. In the case of scrypt+kivaloo+spiped, I'm covering the bounties myself -- it's worth it to me to have good code for Tarsnap to use.
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doody
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>remember when everyone bitched about ribbon in office? after using it for a few years its now obviously better than the old model Absolutely. It’s always better to replace a familiar user interface with a multi-colored hash of random visual metaphors. Shame more programs don’t throw away that mundane menu bar.
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seydar
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Sounds like SOMEONE didn't read the article...
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myliverhatesme
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> column editing So does VIM. > programmable bundles VIM has plugins > syntax coloring VIM most definitely has syntax highlighting
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xon_xoff
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> This is very sensible; it allows you to use the first few MMX registers together with the first few FPU stack locations, without them overlapping. If the order was reversed, then ST0 and MMX0 would already overlap. I'm guessing this is more due to implementation reasons, perhaps something internal to the x87 stac...
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GMNightmare
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I haven't read a single book... but I do look up a lot on best practices and techniques online. I guess that counts. But in no way would I say that reading about programming is even in the same league of importance as practice itself. I'd say 95-5. In fact, reading is in the later stages, once you are actually good eno...
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shevegen
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My ruby code is very readable, almost pure english, save for some logic (or older code). Sometimes in my larger projects I do something new, which can then be a bit strange for others to understand... and even myself. I try to make every problem logical, every solution to a problem concise and logical. The less code t...
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pablogrb
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I couldn't recommend that book more, not only is a great course on Fortran, it contains a great language reference and instills in its reader very good and consistent coding practices that in my case, have overflowed to the other languages I work in.
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webby_mc_webberson
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I have heard good things about them since. To credit the book, it was my first foray into anything programming and I had intended for it to be an into into programming for the course I was about to start. I went into college with an understanding of variables, objects and methods that it took a lot of the other guys mu...
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sltkr
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Hmm, you're right. I forgot about that. In that case you can't really share the register set anyway, so I guess it doesn't really matter how they overlap?
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greenspans
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Reactos is trying to be like windows. These bugs are a feature. +interest in cross platform projects that actively have a lot of users. eg VLC, ffmpeg, popular compilers, gimp, imagemagick, postgresql, libh264, popular lib*. Everyone should have upvoted on your articles like bug finding in apache/chrome and others tha...
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nuzzle
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I was being sarcastic. The example for C-like loops is wrong, because C-loops are "while" and not "until" loops. for ( initialise; while-this-is-true; do-this ) { /* then-do-this */ ) not for ( initialise; until-this-is-true; do-this ) { /* then-do-this */ ) What I would like is foreach ( x in [ ...
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comment-dwim
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> lets you play around with the fundamentals That's what is great about MCEs. You don't need a lot of boilerplate to explore lazy vs eager evaluation, lexical vs dynamic scoping, different macro systems, call by-whatever, etc... To play and learn about the semantics they are a great tool.
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solomute
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>Except that it doesn't, because the latency is still there. It's still there, but you don't feel it as much. That's the point. You're hiding the latency so you don't feel it as much. You're shifting its effects into situations which occur less frequently. So you don't feel it as much. That's the point. Not sure wh...
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hackinthebochs
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>I'm sorry, but that's complete and utter nonsense. Good argument, bro. Flow, being "in the zone" is real. Having to google for api docs every other line breaks that mental concentration. Its funny that you rarely see blogs talk about the zone these days. Its because the zone is gone. No one actually programs anyt...
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00kyle00
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>I was being sarcastic. Couldn't tell. I think author really would like what you suggested.
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tootie
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I hear you, but if your listener function requires specific arguments/return type then suddenly the Java approach is what you want. It's not a bug, it's a feature. They designed it like that on purpose to adhere to a certain philosophy that is generally the best loved philosophy in industry. I love me some lambda actio...
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shutmeup
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Dude that final exam had: * Theoretical : 1hour (complete mindfuck...that question landed here and was the easiest) * Practical : 2.5 hour (where we wrote about 6 pages of code) If we learned some design patterns and we even implemented 4 or 5 in a 40hour project ( outside of school and groups of 2 people) that must...
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> Even though selectors are WORDS-sized registers, like standard registers such as AX, they're not pushed on the stack the same way. That makes perfect sense to maintain memory alignment (4 bytes) in 32 bit code. Pushing a selector (cs or whatever) works as he expects. However you'd normally push eax on the stack, ...
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I'm a C++ programmer ... and I spent the first years working without reading a single book. I considered myself better than most. Then randomly I picked up a book, and another, and another, and I saw my code for the shit it was. It was just the same bad practices that everyone else was stuck in (even or maybe especial...
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GMNightmare
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"I don't know what I can do to show that these projects were time-consuming." Hmm, but you seem to think your time requirements for a project are everybody elses. You're wrong. Somebody in your class took no time at all doing them. Somebody took an hour. I highly doubt you could get through a degree without at least o...
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nephros
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Soooo, how is it meant to be used?
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I assumed reading programming books is common sense; apparently not.
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Taladar
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> Where is the abstraction there? Higher order functions and I believe it also has closures (?)
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>poops. FTFY
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kungpaobeef
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that's 36,500 hours.
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Dested
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Linqpad was one of the greatest tools I ever purchased. I dont write a ton of linq anymore unfortunately, but when I did it was invaluable.
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MarshallBanana
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> A class method is a fancy name for a namespaced function. Unless you use a language with message passing, where it isn't.
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Inevitably X becomes commoditized and redundant. And all new jobs require years of experience developing with Y.
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MarshallBanana
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> C: pointers Not at all. I've written quite large C programs that don't use a single pointer. One of C's *strengths* is that you don't *need* to use pointers.
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skulgnome
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Cheat code: if you choose X and Y carefully, you'll find that many things you learned with X can be cross-applied to a surprising degree. Not the concrete skills, obviously.
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skulgnome
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Nah. 10 years only takes you as far as "not a novice anymore", if you practise and challenge yourself. Expertise is likely at least another ten of that.
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Well is that something, your friend Bjarne ran into some overenthusiastic college kid.
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sockpuppetzero
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Ok, complicated queries are executed in complicated ways, but a simple lookup has far fewer options... usually an table scan or an index scan. Now a table scan could reveal the approximate size of the database, but I would think that an index scan (which you should be using) should produce mostly predictable perf...
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YHVH
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[Project Fortress](http://labs.oracle.com/projects/plrg/Fortress/overview.html) on JVM?
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rainweaver
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I wouldn't classify Lua source as "beautiful"... extremely convoluted, somewhat elegant in places, but not beautiful, no. It's highly optimized, and readability has gone down the drain. But yeah, a good learning exercise nonetheless.
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nephros
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Ah. I see. My reasoning would be that if binary logic is (*true* OR *false*), then (*lower* OR *equal* OR *higher*) must be trinary (or tertiary or whatever).
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kawa
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People always forget about history. The history of OOP started with Simula (developed in the 60th) which was the main influence for the developement of C++ which in turn was the main influence for Java. Simula itself was mainly influenced by Algol. So Java is more or less an Algol successor. OTOH Smalltalk (develope...
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I'm not sure what you mean by specific arguments, are you referring to Java only? Delegates are type-safe in D as far as I know. I'd like to know more on what you mean exactly. :)
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nodemo
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Agree, SQL suffers from the same problem badly. Example problem i had a few days ago: To set a variable you use SET @myVar := 4; To retreive values you use SELECT ... Hmm, what would be the logical way to store a value retreived into another variable??? Maybe SET @myVar := SELECT... BEEP. No, you have to use SELECT...
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franktinsley
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Cool that's pretty much exactly how I felt about my skills. There's still a lot about how I structure everything that I struggle with and when everything gets complicated I end up painting myself into pretty terrifying spaghetti messes but it seems like digging my way out of the messes is a good way to learn why all ki...
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andytuba
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Yeah, we've got a little of both at my company. Logged hours can help realistically plan out what you want to get done in a week or a month, inasmuch as our workloads follow pretty constant patterns. I still do "2x + 1week" math on my time estimates, though. As for logging, I try to make it more efficient by skimmi...
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kawa
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> Java. You wouldn't have to create a new class to encapsulate the act of turning on a light in a lot of languages, you could use a lambda or some equivalent functionality In Java using a class is exactly this "equivalent functionality". Also it seems that you understand the command pattern. It's not to be used al...
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rib-bit
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exactly -- more theory rather than tools -- I find the guys are smart and have a lot of tools (more than I'll ever have) but they don't know when to use which tool and can't provide the systemic analysis to support it (eg why the cursor in their stored proc is the cause of the delay and how to fix it so there is a orde...
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bucknuggets
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Sometimes. Other times it just unnecessarily holds users back. I've seen this result in dumb tools that the rest of us have to live with and I've seen it destroy the competitiveness of organizations - where the tooling falls too far behind that of their competitors.
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kawa
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I really don't understand the problem some people seem to have with the factory pattern. It's so easy and simple to understand, but at the same time it's necessary if you want to make object creation dynamic or configurable. In fact it's nothing else but using a lambda instead of a fixed function. But since Java has ...
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davbis93
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Linqpad is the best thing ever.
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weavejester
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Well, it is if you want to do something like: Predicate<int> p = new Predicate<int>() { public bool apply(T x) { return x > 0; } }; Compared to: val p = (x: Int) => x > 0; Or even just: _ > 0 If we were going to pass the predicate straight into a...
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homoiconic
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> Java is more or less an Algol successor. Of interest is that Guy Steele had a big hand in Java and in Scheme. Scheme is a dialect of Lisp that was strongly influenced by ALGOL’s block structured variables, which persist in Java to this day.
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LaurieCheers
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I think the problem was that his bullshit detector went off first. Then he stopped reading.
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eric_t
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I still follow the progress on Fortress, and it will be interesting to see what happens with it now that Oracle is in control. I just personally find Chapel more interesting.
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akdas
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> Hmm, but you seem to think your time requirements for a project are everybody elses. You're wrong. Somebody in your class took no time at all doing them. Somebody took an hour. I highly doubt you could get through a degree without at least one of them showing up in at least one of your classes. It's interesting t...
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kawa
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Simply using a Constructor is *not* (<-edit) flexible enough for lots of occasions. Often you need be be able to use arbitrary code to create something and this can only be done by supplying arbitrary creation code. Doing it via a lambda, a function pointer or an object (which acts as a lambda here) is no conceptual...
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OMG_Ponies
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Yea, I can definitely say it's a book "by programmers for programmers"... started out at 13 (only messed around with QBASIC up until then) with C++ in 21 days.. took me about sophomore year in high school to grasp everything in that book!
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DaFox
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Indeed, I barely skimmed through that article but it basically seems to be a representation of [this oldie](http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3094/1500_archers_on_a_288_network_.php) The correct term for this would be Lockstep networking.
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>Watch other people do seX who's better than you and learn from it ok, brb
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TheLobotomizer
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I can confirm this. I've written the most beautiful algorithms that use 3 separate APIs to produce crisp and incredibly organized data sets in a few hours while taking another 24 hours to get the CSS for the presentation right. Even CSS frameworks and tools like RapidCSS don't help too much (maybe save an hour or two)...
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gmiller123456
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It is still useful as a checksum algorithm, it's just not compatible with older versions. The Castagnoli version is a more efficient polynomial and is what you want if you're interested in speed more than you are interested in compatibility with thinks like PKZIP.
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