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| bio | website | sparr0.livejournal.com |
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| location | Atlanta, GA | |
| age | 30 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 7 months |
| seen | 15 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 96 |
I am the typical "computer nerd", with skills in a number of programming languages and a wide range of computer hardware and software.
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May 11 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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May 11 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 5 |
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Does change the license under which Linux is released need the permission of all the copyright holders? @KeithThompson I don't think such a subset would be functional, and there is no way he could re-implement the missing bits in a "clean room" way after having stared at others' contributions for decades. |
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May 4 |
awarded | Yearling |
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May 4 |
answered | Does change the license under which Linux is released need the permission of all the copyright holders? |
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May 1 |
answered | What's a good way for a program to process an email mailbox? |
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Mar 28 |
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what is a efficient way to find repeating decimal @MichaelT I was not aware of that. If true, the precision is not precisely "arbitrary", but can be arbitrarily high depending on the denominator. |
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Mar 27 |
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what is a efficient way to find repeating decimal "Turn it into a string" could require arbitrary precision calculations and a very long string to calculate two copies of the repeating part of the string (and how do you know when to stop calculating? .121212312121231212123... would be a problem) |
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Mar 27 |
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what is a efficient way to find repeating decimal So you have a=5 and b=7, and you can calculate a/b in floating point easily enough, but what you want to know is that it repeats after 6 decimal places? |
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Mar 9 |
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When should you call yourself a senior developer? @pap I stand corrected. Still, taking responsibility for an entire development effort seems like a lead or architect trait, unrelated to rank or title as a developer. That is, "senior developer" means you're better at all aspects of the "developer" job than a "junior developer". It is wholly separate from "lead developer" or "development manager" or "software architect", which encompass distinctly different skillsets and job responsibilities. |
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Mar 9 |
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When should you call yourself a senior developer? @pap taking responsibility for an entire development effort seems like a lead or architect trait, unrelated to rank or title as a programmer. |
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Sep 26 |
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When should you call yourself a senior developer? @qes Can you quantify the difference? Plenty of hobbyist programmers are doing enterprise-level planning, collaboration, quality assurance, etc. Today's 15 year old could be a top-10 code contributor to a project like Firefox or OpenOffice, but apparently that experience isn't worth much. |
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Mar 29 |
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Most common “Y2K-style” bugs today? That code is accurate for EST. If you want EST5EDT then code for that, but if you just want EST then subtracting 5 hours works. |
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Jan 26 |
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When should you call yourself a senior developer? @Josh K I wish that half the "software developers" I meet with 6 years of professional experience on their resume had even half the experience I had at age 14. I fear you are being unfair, but I hope you have simply had the great fortune to only ever meet good programmers. |
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Jan 26 |
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When should you call yourself a senior developer? @Josh K Then you have broken the analogy. We are talking about people with less paid experience vs people with more unpaid experience. |
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Jan 25 |
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When should you call yourself a senior developer? @Josh K A hobby pilot of 20 years has flown [at least] a logged number of hours, in specific conditions, recorded and verifiable. He has to do that to keep his license. |
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Jan 24 |
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When should you call yourself a senior developer? @Josh K and you think a paid pilot of 5 years would be "Senior" to a hobby pilot of 20 years (with 4x as many flight hours logged)? |
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Jan 22 |
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When should you call yourself a senior developer? @Josh K So someone with 2 years of paid experience is more senior than someone with 20 years of unpaid experience? I don't think that holds in any industry, whether you're a software developer, a millwright, a pilot, an actor, or a dentist. |
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Jan 21 |
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When should you call yourself a senior developer? @Josh K ok then, what was I missing? Age? |
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Dec 29 |
awarded | Necromancer |
