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Pierre 303

Jul 2, 2011 07:34

@A-Cube: if I listened to all the frogs, I would have done nothing of my life. Don't listen to the frogs. The facebook creators did not.

Pierre 303

Jul 2, 2011 07:34

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A: Industry has no place for passionate programmers?

Your manager needs a shrink ;) Or you need to be aware of tiny frogs. There once was a bunch of tiny frogs,... … who arranged a running competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower. A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the ...

HedgeMage

Jul 1, 2011 21:40

@ACube Autism effects social awareness, but once you are made aware of what is expected in a social situation you should do your best to act appropriately (assuming you aren't being asked something immoral/illegal)

HedgeMage

Jul 1, 2011 21:15

@Aaronut Okay, now you are evidence that coders often have too little in the way of social skills. That doesn't actually work unless one has the needed qualities to follow through, and the mindset to take a sense of accomplishment without outside authority giving you a cookie every five minutes.

HedgeMage

Jun 28, 2011 23:54

I told you it has a steep learning curve.

HedgeMage

Jun 28, 2011 17:40

binaryredneck.net/node/170

HedgeMage

Jun 28, 2011 17:40

esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2520

Thomas Owens

Jun 23, 2011 20:04

I actually just popped by to see if anyone was here and kick around the link to the post on meta about a Programmers blog. meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/1709/…

Pavel Shved

Jun 22, 2011 19:41

@PeterTurner why do you think that every piece of knowledge is of the equal value?

HedgeMage

Jun 22, 2011 19:38

If we could get everyone to act like grown-ups, these disagreements could be discussed objectively and solved.

Pavel Shved

Jun 22, 2011 19:36

It's not your wife to be closed in a prison...

Pavel Shved

Jun 22, 2011 04:26

@Phelios NPR is "Not Programming Related". It was the name of the question close reason on StackOverflow (that is "off topic" now) that showed the question is about programmers, but not about programming, thus not subject for remaining on SO.

Sergey

Jun 21, 2011 16:22

I agree with you, but there's one thought in my mind which makes me anxious - I read an article of John Cook where he says that people at first google, then search in stackoverflow, coworkers, only then RTFM, and finally try to think

Pavel Shved

Jun 18, 2011 06:58

@HedgeMage win does have filesystem peermissions. :) They're even more powerful than those on Linux. :)

HedgeMage

Jun 18, 2011 05:44

just edits the heck out of stuff -- I've found it's easier, and if the OP objects they can allways roll back.

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen

Jun 2, 2011 18:46

@AnnaLear, agree. Programming is like driving a car. Theory is important but practice is even more so. Much of elegant programming is knowing what not to do.

Anna Lear

Jun 2, 2011 16:14

@SegFault As a career, programming can be very exciting if you work for a startup that's doing something that you are passionate about. If you enjoy web development, then joining a company that has a cool web-based product might be a good way to go. There will always be some boring tasks to deal with, but that's the case in any profession.

Pierre 303

May 25, 2011 20:14

Visual Studio .NET has everything you need to program in Assembly. Event dissassembly is there with debugger. Sometimes, you get it when an application crash

user2334

May 11, 2011 23:00

@aceinthehole You can only receive 200 reputation per day. Accepted answers and bounties are not included in that 200 rep limit.

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen

Apr 20, 2011 11:23

We're very controlled fanatics

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen

Apr 8, 2011 19:12

@user257493, there is a ubuntu stack exchange site at askubuntu.com

AttackingHobo

Apr 1, 2011 00:01

@DanMcGrath The ribs where good, and there are none left. The ribs had almost no bone on them and they were huge

Pierre 303

Mar 19, 2011 10:30

Imran Omar Bukhsh

Mar 17, 2011 23:43

"1 hour later…" , "2 hours later…" , "4 hours later…" .. thats interactive!

Brant

Mar 11, 2011 19:16

Even if it was a ridiculously trivial contribution.

Brant

Mar 9, 2011 17:57

for f rpt*.rdl; do svn rename $f ${f#rpt}; done

Graeme Hill

Mar 3, 2011 23:04

Should it be:

Powerlord

Mar 1, 2011 16:43

mIRCScript, rather than using ++ and -- has the named operators inc and dec!

C. Ross

Feb 25, 2011 20:29

also when I try doing the fast answer and editing, my answer is wrong

Powerlord

Feb 24, 2011 19:43

MY EYES! Good lord, I just looked at another dev's Java object for dealing with a form field. It uses reflection to run the set methods for property names... and as far as I can tell, just dies if it runs into a non-existent property in the ServletRequest's params.

instanceofTom

Feb 24, 2011 18:56

lol

instanceofTom

Feb 24, 2011 17:53

i guess java's response is to be more verbose

Brant

Feb 24, 2011 16:50

Well, even though you don't know me and I don't know you, I want you to know that if your co-workers whom I also don't know make a decision which you have no influence over or stake in which I disagree with, I will think less of you as a developer and as a person.

Rachel

Feb 8, 2011 15:38

@giddy It didn't take me long at all once I understood the way the layers were broken out. I did not have any prior experience with any design pattern or framework, so that probably helped.

To me, MVVM reminded me of a BattleShip game I did in school where one team coded the application logic and classes (and used command line to test) and another team coded the UI. The ViewModel is basically all your UI logic in one location, your View is any kind of UI you want, and the Models contain business logic like validation

instanceofTom

Feb 1, 2011 17:04

Ubuntu Server VPS + Fluxbox + VNC = awesome

Josh K

Jan 29, 2011 03:06

I wrote a quick script to check election status during the primaries. Nothing too fancy, but it will pull the users up and list them with rep and vote count on a developer console.

Pierre 303

Jan 27, 2011 16:25

amazon.com/…

Pierre 303

Jan 27, 2011 12:45

What's interesting in the question is how could a programmer really affect the success of a product. Many books and gurus tell "hire great programmer, and you will succeed". Well it's not true is some case and it's interesting to have opinions of other developers.

ChrisF

Jan 27, 2011 12:25

The way I see it is that hypothetical questions aren't useful, and this question falls into that category. Unless you get someone from Google who was involved in these projects answering, anything anyone else posts is pure speculation

Pierre 303

Jan 26, 2011 16:26

"We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove." –Mark Twain

ChrisF

Jan 26, 2011 14:14

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Q: Do not show the score for users during primaries.

I believe that showing the post score for nomination posts during primaries is a bad idea. When I loaded the primaries page during the election, the first thing I saw was a post voted -1. This immediately colored my impression of the post. Reading his post didn't indeed make me wish he was a mod...

instanceofTom

Jan 25, 2011 22:32

members of forums that I go to refer to Stackoverflow as a cesspool of Aspergers syndrome- referring to stuff like this

Anna Lear

Jan 25, 2011 22:14

@instanceofTom Yahoo Answers is a bottomless pit of fail, and there's a good chance that the SE variant of it would go down the same way. I mean, how do you even moderate or define a "bored at work anything goes" kind of site? I haven't used Quora yet, though.

Pierre 303

Jan 25, 2011 17:19

In 4 hours. stackoverflow.com/election. Who is going to get your votes?

Josh K

Jan 25, 2011 17:10

I'm not sure.

instanceofTom

Jan 25, 2011 17:01

code should work in chat

Anna Lear

Jan 24, 2011 17:56

I run out pretty often. A lot of question turn up many answers worthy of an upvote.

user2334

Jan 11, 2011 21:11

Right, there's the rub: there's no real answer because there's no context

user2334

Jan 11, 2011 20:59

@Rachel "there's no real answer" probably isn't the best way to describe whats wrong with those types of questions. I'd probably say "there's no real context" to indiscriminate general lists of stuff related to programmers. If you take the IDE question: the question depends mainly on the language one is using. If the highest upvoted answer is Visual Studio, it's meaningless to a PHP or Python developer.

badp

Jan 11, 2011 16:32

spreadsheets.google.com/…

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