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« on: September 22, 2011, 05:39:50 AM » |
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I hadn't read this one before, but it is absolutely brilliant: http://thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html |
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"A problem, properly stated, is a problem on it's way to being solved" -Buckminster Fuller
"Multithreading is just one damn thing after, before, or simultaneous with another" -Andrei Alexandrescu
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« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2011, 05:40:30 AM » |
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I saw the title and immediately thought about mouser coming out of the woodworks and talking about his coding "style" ;-)
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Renegade
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« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2011, 06:09:20 AM » |
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That was very good. I skimmed a lot of it, but there are some real gems in there.  |
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« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2011, 07:02:18 AM » |
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Great stuff. |
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« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2011, 07:11:48 AM » |
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Blocked at work - will read later. Luckily I do not need instructions - it comes naturally to me  |
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« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2011, 08:43:16 AM » |
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Luckily I do not need instructions - it comes naturally to me Hahahahaha~! Nice one! |
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40hz
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« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2011, 09:45:17 AM » |
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You could always hire a certain someone I know. Lovely person to talk to. She handles web projects for her employer - who thinks she's a wizard. She's the living embodiment of the 'stream of consciousness' school of programming... |
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« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2011, 03:17:20 AM » |
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You could always hire a certain someone I know. Lovely person to talk to. She handles web projects for her employer - who thinks she's a wizard. She's the living embodiment of the 'stream of consciousness' school of programming... Actually that style worked pretty well for web programming for the longest time, since http is a)linear and b)amnesiac. The industry is full of people like that who managed quite well on the server side programming. It's harder in our days of ajax, html5, rich interfaces in javascript, flash and silverlight etc. |
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« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2011, 05:24:21 AM » |
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You could always hire a certain someone I know. Lovely person to talk to. She handles web projects for her employer - who thinks she's a wizard. She's the living embodiment of the 'stream of consciousness' school of programming... Actually that style worked pretty well for web programming for the longest time, since http is a)linear and b)amnesiac. The industry is full of people like that who managed quite well on the server side programming. It's harder in our days of ajax, html5, rich interfaces in javascript, flash and silverlight etc. It can be extremely difficult sometimes when you're working with umpteen trillion different technologies. In 1 portion of 1 project, this is what I need to deal with: C# VB.NET ASP.NET X/HTML CSS XML TXT HTTP JavaScript 2 Frameworks 4 Components 1 Database 6 Projects 4 Web applications (3 are also projects) ? APIs... I don't feel like counting... I'm sure I'm forgetting some things, but whatever. Point is, it takes a lot of effort to keep each section separate and clean and working well with every other part. It's easy to see why some things turn into complete disasters. (I've been taking my time to make certain that things are as maintainable as possible. e.g. TONS of comments in code with everything as atomic as possible.) In some ways, you're kind of like a conductor when you're programming -- it's up to you to orchestrate everything and "make music". |
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« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2011, 08:41:07 AM » |
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Iphigenie is perceptive as ever.   The woman I was speaking of dates back to the "fly by the seat of your pants" era in web development; and built her reputation back when transparent 1-pixel gifs were considered a brilliant web hack. Unfortunately, she has not kept up with current best practices. |
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« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2011, 01:23:27 PM » |
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and built her reputation back when transparent 1-pixel gifs were considered a brilliant web hack. What, why are you using past tense? |
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« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2011, 01:35:04 PM » |
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and built her reputation back when transparent 1-pixel gifs were considered a brilliant web hack. What, why are you using past tense? Yeah. There is that.  But I was thinking more along the lines of it being clever rather than sneaky. |
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Armando
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« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2011, 08:48:17 PM » |
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Utterly hilarious. What's also great about that piece is that it serves as a good reminder about annoying practices. I should probably ashamed, but... I do like some of the "Hungarian notation" principles...  I find that, more often then not, it makes my code more readable in a simple text editor. Of course, more readable to me, hehe. |
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"I suppose it can be said that I'm an absent-minded driver. It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it."
Glenn Gould
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Armando
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« Reply #13 on: September 28, 2011, 08:52:52 PM » |
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[Related to spoiler in previous post... ] Aaaaah. This just made me feel better. I love you guys  http://www.donationcoder....26284.msg244024#msg244024 |
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« Last Edit: September 28, 2011, 08:56:03 PM by Armando; Reason: wrong link. »
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"I suppose it can be said that I'm an absent-minded driver. It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it."
Glenn Gould
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« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2011, 04:33:41 AM » |
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From the source: If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
- Anonymous
Thanks for sharing, Jibz! |
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Armando
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« Reply #15 on: September 29, 2011, 09:45:06 AM » |
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^^^Would make a great "signature".
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"I suppose it can be said that I'm an absent-minded driver. It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it."
Glenn Gould
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« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2011, 07:25:02 AM » |
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and built her reputation back when transparent 1-pixel gifs were considered a brilliant web hack. What, why are you using past tense? Hahahahahaha~! Nice one~! |
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