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Mar 7 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Mar 4 |
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What is proper etiquette for releasing a complete rewrite of an existing project? typo |
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Mar 3 |
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What is proper etiquette for releasing a complete rewrite of an existing project? @MattKeller: Done. Thanks for the nod. |
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Mar 3 |
answered | What is proper etiquette for releasing a complete rewrite of an existing project? |
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Mar 3 |
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What is proper etiquette for releasing a complete rewrite of an existing project? Since it's all new code, I would tend to go with #1 because the history of the old project is really irrelevant. But it would be nice to add something to the README along the lines of, "Based on an idea from ....". |
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Feb 28 |
awarded | Constituent |
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Feb 26 |
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Re-gaining confidence of senior programmer Red Flag!® ...he was upset about having to learn something new. I've been in this game since 1973 and I figure I have had to learn, on average, a new technology and/or tool every month. I'm basically a server guy, but in the last 3 months I have had to completely rethink how I do JS frontends because of projects like Bootstrap, Enyo, and "single page app" frameworks, and that affects how I think about how the server supports them. |
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Feb 19 |
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I want to replace a string in a 320 MB file programmatically Ah, sometimes the old ways are still the best! |
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Feb 18 |
awarded | Caucus |
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Feb 17 |
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Can I use the patented Octree algorithm in a public programming challenge? +1 for contact the owner, but do note that the owner is Octree Corporation (based on the Google Patents link in the previous comment. If your use doesn't impact their profits, and maybe even further advertizes the value of the method, they may be quite happy to give you permission. |
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Feb 16 |
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What *are* the programming concepts I should master to have a deep understanding of my craft (programming)? @MarjanVenema: Actually it was refactoring. I worked at Xerox in the late 70's and, even though I technically wasn't working in an OO language on the editor project, it was OO at its core. The overall project was a complete disaster (everything new from the silicon on up -- yuck!), but the editor did actually work. |
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Feb 15 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Feb 7 |
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Functional Decomposition of a Scenario Uhm, I think more edits are still required. I'm not at all clear on what your question is. |
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Feb 7 |
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HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript… what's next? And for a great start in Python web frameworks, try the Django Tutorial. |
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Feb 6 |
answered | Hardware key removal on a test system |
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Feb 3 |
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Are chained methods that require only one parameter per method equivalent to currying? +1: I knew that, but I don't think I could have articulated it anywhere near as well as you did. |
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Jan 30 |
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What *are* the programming concepts I should master to have a deep understanding of my craft (programming)? @JörgWMittag: I'm a huge fan of automated regression testing. I first used it on a search engine project back in the mid-80's, and I was shocked (shocked!) at the stuff that would fall out after what appeared to be a "minor" change to some innocent looking piece of code. (Note: this was 200,000+ SLOC of C, and memory management problems were the bane of our existence.) |
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Jan 30 |
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What *are* the programming concepts I should master to have a deep understanding of my craft (programming)? @MarjanVenema: Yes, I completely agree with him. Back in the 80's I was tasked with writing a spec for a new editor, to be approved before I started coding. I stared at that damn blank screen for more than a week trying to figure out how to describe something I didn't understand. My manager expressed his displeasure with my lack of progress. After a 3 day weekend he had a draft on his desk. He asked what had happened, and I said that I wrote the editor over the weekend, and then simply wrote a spec of what I had working. I did rewrite some of the code, but it was mostly refactor/cleanup. |
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Jan 30 |
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What *are* the programming concepts I should master to have a deep understanding of my craft (programming)? +1: GET STUFF DONE! A couple of years ago I posted a rant that said that this was the defining characteristic of an engineer -- they get stuff done. Sometimes it ain't pretty, and sometimes you will have to go back and redo it, but at the end of the day they get stuff done! |
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Jan 30 |
answered | What *are* the programming concepts I should master to have a deep understanding of my craft (programming)? |
