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| bio | website | AdamJaskiewicz.com |
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| location | Ann Arbor, MI | |
| age | 28 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 3 months |
| seen | May 11 '12 at 16:31 | |
| stats | profile views | 33 |
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Feb 9 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Apr 13 |
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Why did an interviewer ask me a question about people eating curry? The point is not the approach of making up numbers, it's the approach of determining what numbers you need to come up with, and how to combine them to get the final answer. In an interview situation, these would be WAGs. In the real world, you could come up with a more reasonable answer by doing some research to find better numbers for each assumption. |
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Mar 16 |
answered | What's the role of a Project Manager in Scrum? |
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Mar 13 |
answered | What caused you to stop using UML tools on your team? |
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Feb 29 |
answered | Could you describe “GNU General Public License (GPLv2)” in “for Dummies” terms? |
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Feb 28 |
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What do you do when you can't seem to understand a certain part of programming? Yes, I agree it's a difficult path, but I was trying to point out that it isn't really something that's way out there in terms of effort. It was a required course for an undergrad. degree in Computer Science, not an obscure elective that only the most masochistic PhD candidates take. Plenty of hungover, semi-motivated, beginner programmers managed to get their tangles of virtual logic gates to execute the professor's test programs. |
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Feb 28 |
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What do you do when you can't seem to understand a certain part of programming? Well, my CS degree covered this in Computer Architecture. We learned about logic gates, combined them in a logic simulator to build adders, ALUs, and eventually a very simple RISC CPU. We also wrote simple programs in MIPS assembly. This was all required for a BS in computer science, and wasn't really considered one of the "weeder" courses, so I don't think it's over the top or going too far. |
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Feb 28 |
answered | Do I really need a unit test framework? |
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Feb 24 |
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Suggestions for tree (as a visualization tool) editing software? added 183 characters in body |
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Feb 24 |
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Suggestions for tree (as a visualization tool) editing software? added image |
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Feb 24 |
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Suggestions for tree (as a visualization tool) editing software? added 296 characters in body |
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Feb 24 |
answered | Suggestions for tree (as a visualization tool) editing software? |
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Feb 22 |
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Creating Unit Tests on a CRUD layer of an Application, how can I make the tests independent? added first paragraph |
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Feb 22 |
answered | Creating Unit Tests on a CRUD layer of an Application, how can I make the tests independent? |
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Feb 15 |
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Is it OK for me to suggest ready-made scripts to a programmer? If so, how can I do it without offending him/her? It's OK to point them out. It's OK to ask questions about whether or not they are suitable. But if you trust your developers (and if you don't, you shouldn't hire them), you should take their answers to those questions into account when deciding if you will use these scripts. |
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Feb 9 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Feb 8 |
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Is it a must for every programmer to learn regular expressions? @Andrea, when I was in university (BS in Computer Science) regular expressions were indeed covered when learning about grammars and automata. However, it was only the formal concept that was covered, not applications. We didn't learn the POSIX or Perl-compatible regular expression syntax, or how to use them in our coding. We learned how to draw a state diagram of a finite-state automaton, write that as a regular expression, etc. Greek letters were involved, not grep and text files. |
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Jan 31 |
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Can a client sue you for “broken” software if you're a contractor paid hourly? -1 Once there's a legal threat, he doesn't deserve "a favor" and should be left high and dry. |
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Jan 26 |
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How to stop the development spec from changing in mid development? Short cycles are key. People are much less upset about something getting pushed into the next two-week sprint than when the "next release" is six months away. |
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Jan 12 |
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Rule of thumb for cost vs. savings for code re-use edited body |
