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| bio | website | jerrykindall.com |
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| location | Seattle, WA | |
| age | 44 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 8 months |
| seen | Apr 25 at 16:26 | |
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I'm a technical writer at Tecplot, Inc., makers of fine data visualization software for aerospace/CFD, oil and gas exploration, and general scientific/engineering uses. Python is my Swiss Army Knife of choice. I use it to help build and validate our documentation and help, among other things. I also have some proficiency with HTML, XML, AppleScript, C#, C, and if anyone ever has a question about 6502 assembly language, I'm your man. :-)
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How often do experienced programmers have trouble getting their code to perform its intended purpose? deleted 4 characters in body |
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Sep 24 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jun 13 |
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In plain English, what is recursion? Yes, the function a still calls itself, just indirectly (by calling b). |
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Jun 4 |
answered | Does heavy JavaScript use adversely impact Googleability? |
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Apr 19 |
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does one method overload an other, or are both methods “overloaded” @leftaroundabout: "Overloading" implies that you're doing more "loading" than usual, so the term is only used when you have more than one function with the same name. |
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Apr 9 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Apr 8 |
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How often do experienced programmers have trouble getting their code to perform its intended purpose? All bugs are a result of someone's mistake (even if that mistake was not taking appropriate preventive measures), but you're right that the programmer's not always at fault, so I've added some verbiage about this. |
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Apr 8 |
awarded | Mortarboard |
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Apr 8 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Apr 8 |
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How to generate “language-safe” UUIDs? I once wrote a program that generated passwords for an online service. They were random, but there were a few heuristics that made them sorta pronounceable, so they would be more easily remembered. And these heuristics led to profanity. The solution was as described here: check for vulgar substrings, including those that could be pronounced similarly to vulgar words (e.g. look for FUC and FUK) and regenerate the password. (For giggles, the program wrote the rejected passwords to a separate file.) |
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Apr 8 |
answered | How often do experienced programmers have trouble getting their code to perform its intended purpose? |
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Mar 23 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Mar 23 |
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What's shell script's advantage over interpreted programming languages? added 10 characters in body |
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Mar 23 |
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Mar 23 |
answered | What's shell script's advantage over interpreted programming languages? |
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Mar 23 |
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Why is verbosity bad for a programming language? The worst thing about AppleScript is that every application you want to drive with it can have different terminology. Apple defines certain suites of commands that all programs should support, but in general, knowing how to script one application is only of limited help in scripting another. |
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Feb 6 |
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Do coding puzzles make good interview questions Heh, indeed. :-) |
