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Kilian Foth
Sep 27, 2023 21:18
Stem directions are not decisive in this kind of score. If one of the two instruments was supposed to pause for one beat, you'd have to write an explicit pause.
 

 Discussion on question by Edwardo: Wh…

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Kilian Foth
Jun 15, 2023 12:43
You're hitting your head bang on the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox. Unit tests never failing is good, especially when you do test-driven development. Even if you can't imagine it, not having them would be overall more costly (unless you're infallible, which many claim to be but few actually are).
 

 Discussion on question by Tim: Does a…

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Kilian Foth
Aug 14, 2022 16:32
@Tim The printed score that I performed from doesn't have clefs or staffs, just the word "Tacet" for each movement.
 

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Kilian Foth
Jul 19, 2021 07:17
@tofro Da bin ich völlig anderer Ansicht. Meine spontane Reaktion auf "Ausdrucksqualität" ist "Das hat etwas mit Sprachgewandheit zu tun", während "Ausdruckqualität" nach "bezieht sich auf Computerdrucker" klingt - freilich ohne daß ich begründen könnte, warum.
 

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Kilian Foth
Feb 4, 2019 16:47
And did everyone start clapping after that?
 

 Discussion on question by Fabby: Are …

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Kilian Foth
Sep 10, 2018 17:19
Of course there are, every language has them. But no worry, when you're introduced to them it'll definitely be with sufficient non-verbal cues to recognize them as exceptionally crude.
 

 Discussion on question by Utku: Is so…

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Kilian Foth
Dec 1, 2017 13:34
Very often there is no other way of achieving a requirement. For instance, browsers can run only Javascript, but Javascript is a horrible language. If your code has to run in a browser and you need a proper language, your only options are either transcompilation or getting all browser vendors to include a different interpreter/runtime. Guess which one of the two is feasible!
 

 Discussion on question by Dennis: Why…

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Kilian Foth
Sep 14, 2016 16:13
Because one is a hopelessly complicated route that basically requires duplicating the entire horribly complex, constantly changing SQL syntax definition in your input module, while the other just works.
 

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Kilian Foth
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
What makes you think you have to use a flag and a strange control flow? If the condition holds, you perform the action and return, otherwise you throw the exception. There might be rare, obscure cases of a useful GOTO, but this isn't one of them.
 

 Discussion on question by KyloRen: Wh…

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Kilian Foth
Jun 27, 2016 16:11
Game of Thrones depicts the struggle of Starks and Lannisters for the throne of the kingdom. Crucial parts of English history feature the struggle of Yorks and Lancasters for the throne of the kingdom. This is no coincidence, and neither are the English accents on the TV version.
 

 Discussion on question by Dubs: Is it…

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Kilian Foth
Apr 15, 2016 23:39
@jamesqf because Dubs writes that they are "very, very slow".
Kilian Foth
Apr 15, 2016 23:39
Completely off the point, but if your management is too stupid to realize that having programmers work on unusably slow machines (and on bad chairs) is extremely bad business, then they are incompetent.
 

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Kilian Foth
Dec 22, 2014 19:24
Pointers (the real, dangerous, arithmetic-allowing ones) are thinly veiled memory addresses. That's appropriate if you're programming assembler and manage your own RAM. Since the clock speed and memory density explosion, it makes much less sense to do that, so newer languages tend to use less powerful but safer mechanisms.
 

 Discussion on question by Patrick Col…

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Kilian Foth
Aug 12, 2014 18:28
Book recommendations are sadly also off-topic here - but the best recent text I've seen was O'Reilly's Making Software - What Really Works, and Why We Believe It.
Kilian Foth
Aug 12, 2014 18:28
Define "progress"... For one, I'm reasonably certain the best practitioners today are a lot more capable and effective than the best practitioner in 1980. But I'm equally certain that the average practitioner today is a hell of a lot worse than back then! That's just one of the complications that make opinion-based topics such a bad fit here.
Kilian Foth
Aug 12, 2014 18:28
You read his point about accidental vs. essential complexity, right? The whole point is that there will probably never be something that makes creating complex systems easy. We're certainly not closer to a silver bullet for our current problems than he was to his.