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 Discussion on question by algiogia: M…

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Matthew Whited
Mar 12, 2020 16:42
Not sure how many more ways you can be told no. It’s not going to happen.
 

 Discussion on question by Paul: How c…

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Matthew Whited
May 2, 2019 10:24
And most require fenced to be collected
Matthew Whited
May 2, 2019 10:24
Not really, The guy actively chose to not defend his property rights for that strip of land by making this fence short of the line.
 

 Discussion on question by curiousdann…

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Matthew Whited
Nov 16, 2017 06:34
What makes you think an appointment is any less political than an election? (And the US is a Republic not a Democracy)
 

 Discussion on answer by Robert Harvey…

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Matthew Whited
Sep 22, 2017 08:50
@bash0r, there is no "correct way" or else all programs would already be written and they would all be perfect.
 

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Matthew Whited
Aug 15, 2017 15:40
If you have all those hoops and bad grammar makes it out the door then you need new reviewers.
 

 Discussion on question by LordFarquaa…

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Matthew Whited
Aug 7, 2017 21:50
You shouldn't let you code base suck just to cover the hit by a bus scenario. As long as it is a fair standard pattern that just requires a few changes (and maybe a little knowledge) it’s worth looking into. If we all just wrote the easiest to read and maintain code all of our code would suck and we would never get better (Just think of a team that’s still using .Net 2.0 without LINQ because extension methods and queries in code are scary.)
 

 Discussion on question by Yuropoor: M…

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Matthew Whited
Jul 29, 2017 11:56
Also many places assume autorenewal unless they tell you otherwise... so just talk to your manager.
Matthew Whited
Jul 29, 2017 11:56
Where do you live? For example even if my contract here in Ohio(US) says I must remain in the contract until it expires that clause would not be enforcable. (At will employment.) I can quit at any time (with or without notice) and they can fire/layoff (with or without notice.)
 

 Discussion on question by tonysdg: Ho…

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Matthew Whited
Jul 29, 2017 11:55
It's annoying to be addressed as "Mr. XXX" Only reason I don't hassle people to just call me Matt or Matthew is because it is a very common name. Though I would much perfer "Whited" over "Mr. Whited"
 

 Discussion on question by Andres Root…

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Matthew Whited
Jul 21, 2017 15:05
If he is that worried then you have a bad business model.
 

 Discussion on question by anonymousUs…

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Matthew Whited
Apr 6, 2017 02:13
Some of the suggestions made by various style checkers and linters make crap code. Some of those tools are built by very dogmatic people and their tools do not have any form of reasonable adjustments (jslint is a good example of BS dogma)
 

 Discussion on answer by Spirine: Is i…

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Matthew Whited
Dec 20, 2016 14:13
the radiation wouldn't be into the atmosphere. The materials may but that's pretty unlikely. The of the objects would just be too dense and have too much velocity to be effected enough by solar winds alone.
Matthew Whited
Dec 20, 2016 14:13
lol... yall are worried about nuclear raditation being blown by the solar winds... news flash, solar winds are radioactive.
 

 Discussion on answer by David Arno: M…

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Matthew Whited
Nov 14, 2016 03:52
refactor later guys... holy crap. you don't need to create several methods to handle 1 line of non-duplicated code.
Matthew Whited
Nov 14, 2016 03:52
than methods I have to chase down... yes, inline code is easier.
Matthew Whited
Nov 14, 2016 03:52
many of us perfer to see the inline code and have no problem understanding it. If you were going to make a function it should be sometihng like getPhoneNumber(...) not that isInProduction... with and still user the ternary
Matthew Whited
Nov 14, 2016 03:52
it's clear what it is doing. if you are concerned then add a comment to say what it is doing not how or why.
Matthew Whited
Nov 14, 2016 03:52
disagree.. creating a method to to do something so simple is useless unless it is being reused all over the place.
 

 Discussion on question by vonlost: DD…

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Matthew Whited
Oct 28, 2016 12:30
A whitelist will not protect your servers unless it is managed upstream from your connection. Even if you drop/deny the calls they are still flooding your own internet connection.
 

 Discussion on answer by sdrawkcabdear…

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Matthew Whited
Oct 12, 2016 16:36
you don't have to be mad because she is smarter than you and able to make her money do the work she doesn't want to do.
Matthew Whited
Oct 12, 2016 16:36
@gerrit, your landlady does provide you something under capitalism. Your residence.
 

 Discussion on question by Anonymous: …

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Matthew Whited
Oct 5, 2016 18:52
It's not meant to be... I find it to be really handy. I like the fact I don't have to give out my bank info to third parties like I would with ACH transfers.
 

 Discussion on answer by zephyr: Did t…

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Matthew Whited
Sep 28, 2016 13:21
And earth like planet yes but a planet made if compressed rocks and gas is just like a giant comet. The could easily be formed from collisions of dust, rock, planetoids and other interstellar material. They could have low enough radiation that they would be nearly impossible to detect with current technology.
Matthew Whited
Sep 28, 2016 13:21
And trying to detect a earth like planet out side of a solar system would be one hell of a task... to be fair it is one hell of a task when trying to detect them around an existing star.
Matthew Whited
Sep 28, 2016 13:21
Sorry... I didn't meant to infer that the Earth was formed outside of out solar system... just that is possible that other rouge planets could have formed outside of their own solar systems. It is also possible that they could form within solar systems and be ejected.
Matthew Whited
Sep 28, 2016 13:21
based on the number of stars/objects and the age of the universe the chance that rouge plantes have formed on their own is pretty good.
 

 Discussion on question by php_nub_qq:…

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Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
So you didn't read any of them. Okay.
Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
blog.codinghorror.com/id-consider-that-harmful-too
Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1308.PDF I had submitted a paper under the title "A case against the goto statement", which, in order to speed up its publication, the editor had changed into a "letter to the Editor", and in the process he had given it a new title of his own invention! The editor was Niklaus Wirth.
Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
` unstructured goto` is not the same as all goto as most are taught. And as I started with the editor of Dijkstra's paper took liberties to change a few things which turned into the anti-goto religion that many developers fall into.
Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
And he says as much in the first paragraph.
Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
nested loop exit, exception/rollback, retry, short jump code reuse, loop unwinding. there are more.
Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
It does suggest incoherent flip-flopping and a bias. The second half of the first paragraph also suggests he wrote the letter based on outside pressure to write something. Which is very common in academia. Write something even if you have nothing to show as the writing will show you at least did something.
Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
david.tribble.com/text/goto.html
Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
He is refering to long jumps in code... which have been replaced by subroutines/functions/methods.
Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
later... "The unbridled use of the go to statement has an immediate consequence that it becomes terribly hard to find a meaningful set of coordinates in which to describe the process progress. Usually, people take into account as well the values of some well chosen variables, but this is out of the question because it is relative to the progress that the meaning of these values is to be understood! With the go to statement one can, of course, still describe the progress uniquely by a counter counting the number of actions performed since program start (viz. a kind of normalized clock)."...
Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
"At that time I did not attach too much importance to this discovery; I now submit my considerations for publication because in very recent discussions in which the subject turned up, I have been urged to do so."
Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
@RobertHarvey, fair enough... I didn't mean to imply that java was a mess only due to its lack of goto. It is amazing how manager patterns people will develop to get around problems created by limitations in languages and platforms. :)
Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
And in java there is plenty of convoluted design, poorly structured code and inefficient execution created by the lack of goto.
Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
That‘s just not true. It is was then goto/jump wouldn't be a fundamental aspect of CPU design let alone programming languages. Go and read the original paper. It talks about excessive use of goto not the general use.
Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
In you opinion. An opinion that is wrong and based on personal bias... aka, my point about religions.
Matthew Whited
Aug 31, 2016 14:03
Nothing is wrong with goto. An editor took changed an authors words almost 50 years ago and a pointless debate by people that can't think for themselves was started.... just like many other religions.
 

 Discussion on question by SnookerFan:…

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Matthew Whited
Aug 27, 2016 10:36
I'm sure you have to transfer your work to someone unless you provided no value to the business at which point you are normally requested to leave.
 

 Discussion on question by Frank Puffe…

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Matthew Whited
Aug 19, 2016 02:57
DRY is to help in future maintenance. That's not something that typically makes it too high on a greenfield PMs priorities.