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| bio | website | thehungersite.com |
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| location | United Kingdom | |
| age | 44 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 1 month |
| seen | 6 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 285 |
experienced software engineer with many years in the industry, mostly c++ for large-scale, high-reliability systems.
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Jun 2 |
answered | Multi-threading in C# .NET Windows Service |
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Jun 1 |
awarded | Civic Duty |
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Jun 1 |
answered | How can we make agile enjoyable for developers that like to personally, independently own large chunks from start to finish |
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May 30 |
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Is there still a need for writing SQL? I guess the DBA who worries about a dev using an ORM is akin to a dev worrying about an analyst/manager/customer given a tool that lets them write code! |
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May 29 |
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Anti-depressant and programming: does it reduce your thinking and focusing abilities? I doubt it was the meds, chances are the obvious reasons you can't get into the zone are still there - you don't care for the project/work/job and you've grown older to lose your youthful naivety (or idealism). So you're just having problems being motivated - nothing unusual for 99% of the workforce there :) |
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May 29 |
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What are the worst things that inexperienced developers forget to think about? +1: fundamentally, these are the issues you face. Junior coder may be poor at coding, but then some experienced ones are poor at coding too. The main distinction are items like these. |
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May 29 |
answered | What are the worst things that inexperienced developers forget to think about? |
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May 28 |
answered | What is the best retort to “premature optimization is the root of all evil” |
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May 27 |
answered | Windows Phone App Store |
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May 27 |
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Windows Phone App Store not all of them: winrumors.com/… What's true is that Microsoft says it shipped 2 million units up to January (to the carriers, not the public), so unless they've sold a whole bunch since then, I call BS on the 3 million figure. |
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May 27 |
awarded | Enthusiast |
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May 27 |
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The future of desktop application development to be fair, we have security issues with those network-connected desktop apps. Putting them on the web just means someone else's computer might get infected, and you'd hope that those people would know how to secure their systems better than Joe Desktop. |
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May 27 |
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Windows Phone App Store alas they don't give figures for # downloads, just quantity of apps in the app store - see Android figures for a comparison: androlib.com/appstats.aspx |
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May 26 |
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What are the most controversial C# or .NET “features” you would consider “bugs”? its a known problem - one of the 'WPF performance issues to watch out for' that was given in a MS presentation a couple years back. The problem is that your assemblies are being read from the GAC, and that means they are security-checked to make sure they weren't modified (ie everytime you load one it gets "CRC checked"), this short delay builds up when you have one assembly that depends on another that depends on another.... |
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May 24 |
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Why are null references shunned while throwing exceptions is considered okay? or to put it another way - why not return a code of some sort to represent error information. This argument will rage for years to come. |
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May 23 |
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In the Aggregate: How Will We Maintain Legacy Systems? even if the tests are automated, that's still technical debt - those tests don't maintain themsevles! |
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May 17 |
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Why don't some open source libraries provide binaries? so I guess the answer is to use something like Sourceforge's build servers. Checkin, let them build you lots of binaries. Such as en.opensuse.org/Build_Service |
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May 17 |
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Why don't some open source libraries provide binaries? @Steve314: Everyone has a Windows compiler - either the open source gcc, or the free Visual Studio Express. |
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May 17 |
answered | Beyond Rails, what are the active Ruby open source projects? How do you compare them? |
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May 17 |
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Is “VS Lightswitch” the “Oracle APEX” from Microsoft? if necessary, that UI could graduate to a ... nightmare that is sworn at by developers! Remember when your boss showed you his VB or Access app he wrote over the weekend and said he'd like you to start maintaining it.. :) |
