of the best quiet coffee shops within walking distance.
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'semikolons'.
Then, wait while the QA department writes the specification
for the now-finished software.
Finally, rejoice as your vague bug report has become reality in
only two-and-a-half years, without any further input from you.
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would probably make
ISO-9000 advocates weep openly
Well, something has to.
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programmer weren't high enough yet.
Which might go some way towards explaining this:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000781.html
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I just wrote:
Rather than just categories or types, I'd actually propose a spectrum
Did I say 'spectrum'? Apparently, I meant 'Humpy the camel':
http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf
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Now, where's that shiny robot waiter with my gadget cocktail?
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, 1978) of the professionals but not
of the student.
Or it could mean that the students were in the habit of being
overly verbose in answering questions, since terseness is generally
not rewarded in exams, while it often is rewarded in business.
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directly what they
thought of these issues, you'd have got similar answers; that would
have been some kind of evidence about their beliefs, too.
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the CORBA hair ball:
http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Contentpa=showpagepid=396page=1
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to explain how Hungarian notation,
as formulated by Simonyi, has been generally misunderstood
(including by Microsoft) as simplistic type labelling.
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of an
agile blocker, which I seem too sober to comprehend properly.
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No, it's not some kind of spam-busting code for porn, it's the next
iteration of C++ (shouldn't it be C+=3 by now?):
http://www.artima.com/cppsource/cpp0x.html
This suggested version adds concepts as a language feature.
Presumably, ideas and epiphanies will come later.
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On 02/19/2006 01:08 PM, Bjorn Reese wrote:
Frank Wales wrote:
How designers are saving the world from programmers, since
we apparently don't know how to design things without them:
http://lostgarden.com/2006/02/software-developments-evolution.html
I've seen criticism like this many time
public
speaking in a day, it can't be beyond the wit of academics to
pass such a skill on to CS students, can it?
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gadgets can become cheaper!
If somewhat less reliable for reasons no-one understands!
All Hail the Unit Test!
Thank you.
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aren't you? Iterate this expression one hundred times:
I shall not make people's heads explode on a week day.
Do not use any of C's normal looping constructs.
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Shallow is not deep.
Actually, shallow is the new deep
Quick, organize a high-diving class! That'll show 'em.
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the original request was for ordnance to smite the
opponents of defensive programming, not for grease to
squeeze students through educational pipes more efficiently.
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how to dodge missiles
thrown from nearby desks, a valuable skill that is sadly neglected
in our schools since I left them.
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side is particularly picturesque, so
via there would be nice, thanks.
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, usually with
something like a bar stool to prop their backside on from time
to time, makes them feel more energized as they work. If you're
the kind of person who likes to pace while they think, this might
be worth trying out, assuming your workplace allows for it.
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On 10/27/05 18:05, Sean Heber wrote:
On Oct 27, 2005, at 11:43 AM, Frank Wales wrote:
Perhaps because I'm an only child, I'm in the odd habit of holding
a conversation with myself when working on a problem, in which I
play both sides of the I don't understand why this doesn't work/
Well
:
http://www.limov.com/rcl20/chapter.lml
Okay, plug over; I now return you to your irregularly
scheduled exchange of varyingly-considered opinions
while I go off to the PPIG dinner for fun and eats.
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that in the research.
Under 30? Frank, I think you are turning into a grumpy old
man. How long before you start saying under 40 ;-)
[Looks at watch]
About six years. That's local time, of course.
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of time.
That's an interesting theory you have there, Derek.
I take it you have the experimental data to support it. :-)
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Rosenthal, Cynthia Wong.
As a matter of pure nosiness, Stephen, is there a wider
problem you're trying to address?
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of names can
thus be spent fretting over when to localise it, and whether postfix 'unless' would
make the code look more poetic than prefix 'if (!...)'.
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to be in camel case, or contain underscores or dots, because
they could be highly descriptive or completely hidden when we wanted
them to be, without them all having to be purple.
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the same kind of response if I lived in Ireland.
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complementary
token or expression. The closest I can think of is the mathematical range delimiters,
where things like [0,10), [-1,1], (x,y] and (-50,50) all make sense, but even then,
there's no requirement for them to come in pairs of the form [..) ... (..] .
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something of value.
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, doctor, is this reaction normal, and will I come to
love this baby like the others?
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, clearly articulated more than 3 years ago, must be
rectified.
Much more like this as thread replies from the original post. Enjoy. :-)
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development will get *worse*, because people who
know what they're doing will leave the field to the Joe I-Can-Spell-C's
and their wonderful whiz-bang Metrics of Quality that they don't
understand. I do not want this to happen, and neither do you.
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many points of potential disagreement
there are:
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me with this program (but that is probably because I don't know
as much about psychology as I do about the C abstract machine).
You are John Searle, and I claim my Chinese meal. :-)
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