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| bio | website | earlz.net |
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| location | Cleveland, OH | |
| age | 22 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
| seen | 6 hours ago | |
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Hello there! My name's Jordan Earls and I'm a programmer. Recently, I've been doing almost exclusively work in .Net with C#, a bit of raw IL, and in some cases a hefty serving of code generating T4(it's the meta-future!). Sometimes I do a bit of embedded/electronic work with C and C++(http://mbed.org rocks, btw). And finally, I have at least some competence in Ruby, Delphi, and Javascript.
I currently work for PreEmptive Solutions on the Dotfuscator team and troll the dotfuscator tag on occasion.
Most of my personal projects are open source and BSD licensed. The majority of them are at bitbucket with the rest of them being listed on my projects page
Also, you can follow me on the twitters @earlzdotnet
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Is it ever a good idea to hardcode values into our applications? @Stuper yea, I actually usually follow that convention. For some reason didn't in this answer though |
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When do you not give help to less experienced programmers? +1 for asking questions. This is surprisingly an amazing way to teach. I can't remember where the article is, but somewhere a teacher taught a bunch of 1st graders binary addition and subtraction by asking only questions. |
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Is it ever a good idea to hardcode values into our applications? @quickly well of course you'd want something more like typedef enum {init_state=0, parse_state=1, evaluation_state=2, ... } |
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How do you bill your procrastination? I read this as "how do you bill your prostitution". Wow I was confused lol |
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Coaxing requirements out of business people? I honestly think that anyone(including programmers) can give requirements easier as a "no, I don't like that. I want this changed" rather than "I want this". I think it helps focus on the immediate task at hand rather than trying to think of the entire project at once |
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What's the best way to store documentation associated with a code project? What version-control are you specifically using. I don't know of a source control where you are tied to using Visual Studio for managing it. |
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Where can I get beta testers for a software library? @Dean this is a commercial project, so do you mean buyers? I plan to submit it to the website binpress.com whenever it's out of beta |
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Where can I get beta testers for a software library? Yea, I'm thinking I'll do that with SO now that I've also found my competition lol. But I do have a blog pretty simply describing it. The thing is, I'd rather not carry out the beta for an extremely long time either(as in, long enough for people to start finding my site in google). I've considered paying a couple of subcontractors(a small amount) to beta test it. Do you think I'll get good feedback though? Also, to be clear. My site is already indexed by google including the relevant blog post. But it hasn't made it's way into search results without exact keywords as far as I can tell |
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How can I bootstrap a software development community at my school? @Evan @Ken heh. Then my college I would consider not normal. Intro To Computer Applications(ie, how do you use Word) -> Computer Logic and Algorithms(ie, flow charting and boolean logic. No algorithms to it actually) -> Programming In C++(syntax, OOP, the basics) -> Advanced Programming In C++(algorithms, recursion, pointers) -> Programming In Java(same thing as basic C++) -> Programming in Cobol(Haven't got that far yet, but god I'm dreading it) |
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Where can I get beta testers for a software library? define nearby. I'm in rural Oklahoma. Developers of any sort are pretty hard to come by |
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Where can I get beta testers for a software library? @Jeff, I only know about two locally, and they seemed to have drop off the face of the earth the past few weeks. And online, none of my "friends" aren't ASP.Net developers. |
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What would happen if a bit of GPL code sneaked into the Windows source code? Well, but there is the Free Software Foundation which does not actually "own" any GPL project, but will sue on the behalf of a GPL project. I'd be curious what would happen if them and Microsoft met in court. |
