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| bio | website | twitter.com/AakashMehendale |
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| location | London, United Kingdom | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 9 months |
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Should I write compact code or code with lots of spaces? @FrustratedWithFormsDesigner I dunno, in the second sample here the identifiers aren't as short as they could legally be, which is what a minifier would do. Programmers from a more... ?academic/?theoretical background tend to go for things like fst, snd and so on. Look at typical Haskell code, for example: it's not minified, it just looks like it :) |
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What to do as a Dev when for years their team has lacked product innovation, not used project mgmt methodologies, and kept bad Software Dev practices? At least parts of Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt by Joel Spolsky are relevant. |
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Converting an empty string to a number @Kolyunya well, that depends on the application. What's the application? What's the domain? What would a subject matter expert say? |
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Converting an empty string to a number "How would you convert an empty string?" - however the requirements told me to. If the requirements didn't tell me, I'd ask the client (after berating the analyst, which might be me of course). |
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Books on software development career path Relevant recent CodingHorror blog post: So You Don't Want to be a Programmer After All |
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May 17 |
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Protect Database Design - SQL You've said you're worried, but you haven't said why you're worried. |
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May 17 |
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How do you pronounce SFINAE (the C++ term) You say "Substitution Failure Is Not An Error" or you say "Ess eff eye en eh ee" ? |
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May 16 |
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Are there any statistical information about what kinds of work programmers do? Somewhat relevant: Programming Sucks! Or At Least, It Ought To |
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May 15 |
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Issue deploying Asp.Net MVC 4 website to Azure remove meta-commentary |
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May 15 |
suggested | suggested edit on Issue deploying Asp.Net MVC 4 website to Azure |
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May 10 |
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“Is” prefix and “On” suffix as reasonable exceptions to a “non-hungarian” naming standard? When you say "Hungarian in general does not [make sense to me]", what are you understanding by 'Hungarian' ? |
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May 8 |
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Etymology of “String” The OED have done this work already. The entry for string (paywall, but UK library members are probably able to access) has "1954 Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 1 120/2 A finite, possibly null, sequence of members of the alphabet is called a string." which looks to me to be exactly the modern usage. |
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May 8 |
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Reasoning to wait until third time in the Rule of Three? See Two is an impossible number and Zero-One-Infinity rule for another set of perspectives. |
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May 7 |
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Who does the actual work in IT companies? Someone urgently needs to read Joel's ancient (7 years!) piece The Development Abstraction Layer |
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May 2 |
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Boolean Method Naming Affirmative vs Negative "I wouldn't want to see a guideline in a coding standards document that says thou shalt not use negative names for boolean properties." - I'll just leave this here... |
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Apr 29 |
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Introducing design concepts/patterns/principles to co-workers @WayneM "it's doubtful that I'll look at another software job" - that would be a shame, from what you've written here. Just a little amount of due diligence before applying/accepting goes a long way. |
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Apr 24 |
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Separation of concerns: Whose concern is this? title etc . |
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Apr 24 |
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What was the first programming language written for computers? Describing a loom as a computer seems like a biiiiiiiiig stretch (notwithstanding that I'm sure some enterprising soul somewhere could prove one Turing complete...) |
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Apr 24 |
suggested | suggested edit on Separation of concerns: Whose concern is this? |
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Apr 22 |
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Naming of related classes and interfaces I don't think your current names are too long and convoluted. |
