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| bio | website | matthewellen.co.uk |
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| location | United Kingdom | |
| age | 32 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 8 months |
| seen | 20 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 341 |
I am a programmer looking to become a better programmer. I am British.
You can't have software without FTW!
Contact me @MellenTheNerd
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Dec 20 |
answered | Place to have my code reviewed by others |
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Dec 20 |
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Is macros support in a programming language considered harmful? Knives are dangerous. An alternative is to try cutting things with spoons. |
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Dec 13 |
answered | Begin and Finish or Pre and Post in async call pair? |
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Dec 12 |
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How to measure his own skill in a programming language? @Job: have you read the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy? |
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Dec 12 |
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How to measure his own skill in a programming language? @muntoo: no, that's the question, not the answer. |
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Dec 11 |
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Who can learn to program? @job: speaking as a psychology major, now programming NMR machines, I can attest to that. |
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Dec 11 |
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Is Haskell worth learning? My answer in the Favourite Programming Language question is related |
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Dec 11 |
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In plain English, what is recursion? Sorry! I get a bit carried away sometimes. Maybe you can use this argument as an example of iteration ;) |
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Dec 11 |
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In plain English, what is recursion? There isn't a recursive call! Isn't not a function. :D It is recursive because it causes its self to recur. The water from the lake comes back to the lake, and the cycle starts again. If some other system was putting water into the lake, then it would be iterative. |
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Dec 11 |
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In plain English, what is recursion? @Gulshan: I would say the water cycle is recursive because it causes its self to repeat, like a recursive function. It's not like painting a room, where you carry out the same set of steps over several objects (walls, ceiling, etc.), like in a for loop. The language example does use divide and conquer, but also the "function" that is called calls its self to work on the nested sentences, so is recursive in that way. |
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Dec 10 |
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What to do about “next piece syndrome”? Isn't this just the same as the stopping point question? |
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Dec 10 |
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In plain English, what is recursion? added 241 characters in body; deleted 1 characters in body |
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Dec 10 |
answered | In plain English, what is recursion? |
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Dec 9 |
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What do you call a developer with automated testing specialty? Oh! I thought this was going to be a joke. Like "What do you call a programmer with a shovel on his head? Anything you like, he can't hear you." |
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Dec 6 |
awarded | Pundit |
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Dec 2 |
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How to slow down your computer (for testing purposes)? @johnny: I mean I am up voting because Jason has suggested profiling the application, which would hopefully find the source of performance bottle necks without the need to move to a slower system. |
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Dec 2 |
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How to slow down your computer (for testing purposes)? +1 for profiling |
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Dec 1 |
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Why develop free, open source programs? ammoQ: Sure, none of us has free will. That's what science teaches us. But If you ignore that fact, then you open to a lot more happiness. |
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Dec 1 |
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If I learn PHP first, will it be difficult to learn C# next? I learnt PHP before C#. I don't think it harmed me. But then, I don't get to see me from the outside :D |
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Dec 1 |
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Why develop free, open source programs? @Diego: I see. That makes sense. |
