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| bio | website | MarkDontBlog |
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| location | United Kingdom | |
| age | 42 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 6 months |
| seen | 6 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 91 |
Developer in scientific fields.
- My world is vertical market shrinkwrap. Do you know your world?
- VB6, VB.NET, C, Fortran, Perl, PHP...
- User interfaces, graphics, data manipulation, numerical models.
- Database stuff with Access/MySQL/SQL Server.
- Physics degree, little formal training in development
In my young days I used to write things like compilers and chess programs for fun - but that was last millenium :)
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Feb 10 |
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Where can I find usage metrics for web frameworks? @Yannis and Matt I have edited the question in the hopes of making it constructive so that it can be reopened. Hope the edits are OK with you, Matt |
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Feb 10 |
suggested | suggested edit on Where can I find usage metrics for web frameworks? |
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Feb 7 |
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Have you ever been involved in a BIG Rewrite? How big were they? How many lines of code in original system, how many person-months did the rewrite take? |
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Feb 7 |
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Problems (such as maintenance) in development with unpopular language It's your boss's job to worry about continuation. But it is your job to make sure the boss is aware of the issues they should worry about. You should talk it over with the boss. |
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Jan 29 |
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Why are developer commit statistics harmful? I don't think gathering the statistic is harmful in itself but using it to evaluate programmers would be. Our VCS gathers that info, along with a myriad if other stats, and its available to the whole team but we hardly ever look at it. So no, gathering the statistic isn't harmful. |
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Jan 28 |
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How do you respond to “Tell me a little bit about yourself.” question in interviews? It could be a bad sign if the main interviewer really hasn't read your resume. Maybe you don't want the job. Could be they will always be rushed and won't read your requirements docs, emails... |
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Jan 26 |
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Will giving new recruits a separate subproject from experienced developers help the newbies ramp up more quickly? And who's going to interview these new hires, update the written requirements and design docs, fill in the bug database, spend time on the training sessions...?? Is it the current developers? Because that means they won't be developing full-time. So development speed goes down. Oops. |
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Jan 25 |
awarded | Mortarboard |
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Jan 25 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jan 24 |
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In pseudo code what does := mean? @back2dos etc Even today using = for assignment is confusing. I can still remember, long ago when I first learnt to program, how confusing it was to see x = x + 1. Once you've studied basic high-school maths, x = x + 1 just looks like impossible contradictory gibberish. Next I read an excellent book on computer science for the general reader (I think it was this) which used <- for assignment. x <- x + 1 is much easier to understand. |
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Jan 21 |
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Frankly, do you prefer Cowboy coding? +1. Maybe you can't choose your skill level but you can choose to improve, like an illiterate person can go to night school. Read, find good developers and learn from them, reflect on what works and what doesn't. |
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Jan 11 |
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How can I answer interview questions about developing in a team when I've always been a lone developer? +1. In fact it sounds like the OP actually answered the question perfectly well! |
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Dec 30 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Dec 29 |
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How does unit testing work? +1 for running the existing code and recording the results. In this situation, that's probably the pragmatic approach. |
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Dec 29 |
answered | Why do programming language (open) standards cost money? |
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Dec 16 |
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knowledge base/collaboration tools? Possible duplicate of programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/91752/… |
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Dec 14 |
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How do quick & dirty programmers know they got it right? @Steve Yes it is, that is why I quoted it. It does say "beware of bugs" |
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Dec 13 |
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How do quick & dirty programmers know they got it right? Donald Knuth: "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." haacked.com/archive/2007/11/29/… |
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Dec 13 |
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How assertive should I be in handling exceptions in objects? @one.beat You can easily tell which objects need manual disposing. They implement IDisposable. That means the API designer is telling you to dispose the object. Follow the instructions. |
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Nov 29 |
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What is the supposed productivity gain of dynamic typing? ... it's not really relevant to compare with C. Better to compare with C# or another modern statically typed language |
