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| bio | website | horuskol.net |
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| location | Adelaide, Australia | |
| age | 33 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 4 months |
| seen | May 19 at 4:14 | |
| stats | profile views | 45 |
Lead Web/Application Developer - PHP (Drupal and Zend) and Python.
Amateur photographer and sometime explorer.
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Sep 12 |
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Should I aspire to work at a large software firm? @Job - clients that would spend without scrutiny... |
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Sep 11 |
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Should I aspire to work at a large software firm? @Job the previous small company (< 5 developers) I worked had meetings about meetings, and some of the other issues from larger companies - you just seem to have found a good small company (as I have now - although, really, it's a medium company with a small in-house tech/development team). |
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Sep 8 |
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Can you write an unambiguous specification in a natural language like English? "good enough is good enough, but perfection is a PITA" - I used to work in building environment controls, and there is no such thing as a completely unambiguous spec there, even when they run to 400 pages - sometimes it didn't matter, and for the times it did we had RFIs |
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Sep 2 |
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What is the reason to put prefixes in new CSS features? I've seen variants of the rounded borders between browsers - especially when trying to assign a specific corner. In this case, I think the browser specific implementations were in place before the specification was written for rounder borders. |
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Aug 30 |
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How important are PHP notices really?echo PREFIX . 'foo'; is only correct if PREFIX has been defined as a constant - otherwise it will still assume it is an undefined constant and then cast it to a string... |
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Aug 30 |
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If this is camelCase what-is-this? While not technically an actual language - it's one of the common conventions that CSS designers use for naming element ids and classes. Also, HTTP header names use hyphen separators. So, true that Lisp likely did it first - but it's not a convention unique to Lisp. |
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Aug 26 |
answered | Why the decline in search traffic for popular programming languages? |
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Aug 24 |
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Why is it unrealistic to expect all browsers to support the same standards? @Jordan - more like the W3C has no enforcement power, and browser vendors are free to implement their solutions anyway they like - conformance is voluntary, after all |
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Aug 24 |
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Why is DRY important? @Robert - have you read any of the articles at thedailywtf.com ;) - there are some out there who would do just that |
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Aug 15 |
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Writing the minimum code to pass a unit test - without cheating! I agree with @PaulButcher - in fact, a lot of unit testing examples in texts and articles would take this approach. |
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Jul 6 |
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Is OO-programming really as important as hiring companies place it? Well, Cobol was around before OO. I can't comment on Smalltalk, but I imagine that there must have been problems with it if it wasn't picked up. |
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Jul 4 |
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Is OO-programming really as important as hiring companies place it? Have to call you out on companies 'not caring' about OO - good companies do care about reusable/maintainable codebases, and OO patterns are the recognised way to do this. |
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Jun 30 |
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Does anyone work 10 hours shifts as a developer? Clarified switching from 5 day to 4 day weeks |
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Jun 30 |
suggested | suggested edit on Does anyone work 10 hours shifts as a developer? |
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Jun 27 |
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How to convincing Programmers that 'being in the zone' [coding] isn't always beneficial for the project? @Rei - my point exactly, it doesn't mean a narrowing of focus (good link, btw) |
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Jun 26 |
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How to convincing Programmers that 'being in the zone' [coding] isn't always beneficial for the project? Doesn't all this depend on your definition of 'zone'? I've always felt that this is just a period of outstandingly smooth programming/development - for me, this includes the usual failing-test/code/pass/refactor/pass cycle, so it shouldn't be the problem that the book makes it out to be |
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Jun 7 |
awarded | Civic Duty |
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May 31 |
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What's your suggestion if the company didn't recognize my contribution towards a big project? @Beofett - you make some great points, but I think you also miss on some. There are substantive studies that show that there is a limit on the amount of motivation gained for simple financial remuneration (ie, bonuses) in 'thinking' and creative disciplines such as software development. Once a certain level of financial reward is achieved, a programmer craves recognition (this is not necessarily 'praise') and 'interesting' work more than money. However, in the OP's case it sounds like he's not getting anything beyond his basic paycheck - recognition or money. |
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May 31 |
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Test to confirm message with random component Thanks, that does clear things up. |
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May 31 |
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Test to confirm message with random component But what about the rest of the message container? And surely returning a constant voids the test, since that is not what the function is supposed to return... |
