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If you want to dramatically increase your programming skills you need to be reading other people’s code.

Copy and paste faster?

A great majority of the code I've cut and pasted in the past has been buggy and therefore has increased my debugging skills and in a round about way has increased my programming skills but only because I had to know it to debug it.

I guess they're talking about reading code of people that actually know how to code?

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I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!

Mike Hankey wrote:
I guess they're talking about reading code of people that actually know how to code?

Oh, where's the fun in that?

TTFN - Kent

touche'

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I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!

If you want to find the best goalkeeper look for the worst defence..

ZDNet[^]:
Popularity may not be a single vector answer, but students and professionals still want to know if they're guiding their careers and companies in the right direction.

"Art thou base, common and popular?"

Shouldn't articles like this be titled, "Languages for which you need Google"?

In my experience, C# is way more used than Java, but the local help is quite good and for anything more, you go directly to Microsoft.com.

Being comfortable in multiple languages and frameworks is important, because the computer industry is changing so much.

Does no one question this hysteria of the language/framework du jour and this constant (actually, accelerating) rapid change?

Does no one consider that what this creates is a bunch of mediocre developers, not because developers are mediocre, but because no one has the time to become highly skilled at a particular language or framework?

Does no one consider the actual cost of having to maintain and fix problems in a complex system, not because the system itself has complex business logic, but because the system requires knowledge in SQL, NoSQL, ORM-of-the-day, IoC-of-the-day, Java/C#/Python/Php/Ruby/Go/R/F#/Scala/Haskell/..., Javascript/HTML/CSS/jQuery, Backbone/Angular/Boostrap/Knockout...

Does no one consider that all this kitchen sink of languages requires an equal porridge/cesspool of tools - compilers, editors, test frameworks, debuggers, loggers, containers, installers, deployers, bug trackers...

Does no one consider that the result becomes a process control nightmare to manage all this?

No, I don't think so. Where wise men perhaps would tread cautiously, fools cavort instead.

Of course it's still a playground, and it's a fun playground, and the link in my sig certainly betrays that I too quite enjoy the foolish cavorting, but perhaps the difference is that I also know the difference between wisdom and foolery. Wink | ;)

Marc

V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation

Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

Marc Clifton wrote:
Where wise men perhaps would tread cautiously, fools cavort instead

good quote

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Ars Technica[^]:
NIF turns its lasers down to five, gets the similar amount of fusion.

With added menthol

The obvious solution is bacon fat, but they're too stupid to see it.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

DZone[^]:
I imagine that traditional Scrum works best when you're working on a single application and codebase with pretty a well-restricted scope and limited technologies in play.

How about some limoncello?

Agile has no flavor to begin with, nor color, nor texture. Which means you're pretty much left with little choice but to add some carcinogenic flavor simulation, some toxic (but FDC approved) coloring, and for texture, well, used kitty litter works as well as anything.

But no matter how you combine the ingredients, the end result always comes out the same (or if you're Yoda, "Always the result, same end it comes out.")

Marc

V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation

Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

modified 18-Dec-16 20:22pm.

eww

#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

Science Daily[^]:
Researchers have made the world’s smallest radio receiver – built out of an assembly of atomic-scale defects in pink diamonds.

Does it pick up the world's smallest violin?

This probably explains why we haven't picked up radio emissions from ET. They use advanced tech like this. Laugh | :laugh:

Marc

V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation

Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

It strikes me that any sufficiently advanced extra-terrestrial civilization will be using point-to-point communications because broadcast is just wasting energy.

Does it come with a "find-my-radio" feature?

... such stuff as dreams are made on

I swallowed a pink diamond once...that may explain the voices in my head. Smile | :)

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I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!

Bartek[^]:
Whenever I declare a variable in a function body, I try to think if I can make it constant. Let me explain why I think you should be doing the same.

"O constancy, be strong upon my side,"

const universe = NothingIsConstant();

Marc

V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation

Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny

Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

This is a constpiracy - Arrr

re/code[^]:
“The aircraft was substantially damaged,” according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

Did it have something to do with contacting the ground?

It was updating its status with a selfie showing its wheels a few feet above the runway.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

Neowin[^]:
LinkedIn has begun informing Lynda.com users of a data breach, emailing customers to say that "an unauthorized third party breached a database that included some of your Lynda.com learning data, such as contact information and courses viewed."

Now people are going to find out I took that VB training video.