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I’ve heard a bit of conventional wisdom in the software industry. It holds that people will read a given line of code an order of magnitude more times than they’ll modify it. I only use single-character variables to help people understand my code
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So if I read 20 lines of code, but only think a couple of them are bad, there's something wrong with me?
But what if I read 20 lines that are all good?
Am I therefore terrible?
What assumptions are we supposed to start from, here?
I've read a lot more good code than bad code*.
* Note that I stay away from QA specifically to maintain that status quo
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Some of that is obvious, but when he presents:
var distinctCoordinatesBelow = _window.GetAll<T>().Where(c => c.Location.Y > LabelYCoordinate).OrderBy(c => c.Location.Y).Select(c => c.Location.Y).Distinct();
As an example of an undesirable LINQ chain he lost me. Any reasonable programmer would write:
var distinctCoordinatesBelow = _window.GetAll<T>()
.Where(c => c.Location.Y > LabelYCoordinate)
.OrderBy(c => c.Location.Y)
.Select(c => c.Location.Y)
.Distinct();
Which is much, much more readable.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Quote: Is your code hard to understand
Yes.
int _,__,___; 
Hum. Wasn't supposed to have space b/n _ ARGGGGG. CODEproj3ct...
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
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Dear Erik Dietrich,
All code is hard to understand. Picking apart language idiomatic syntax is irrelevant because any and all language syntax obscures, dissects, decouples, entangles, abstracts, simplifies, modifies, and otherwise complicates the initial intent, which is usually simply stated in any spoken language of your choice.
If it were not so, we wouldn't need unit testing, QA departments, and lawyers (at least for software bugs that kill people and waste millions of dollars of tax payer's money when Mars satellites and rovers go boom or missing.)
Marc
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Spiceworks survey shows positive workplace relationships rank above money as key to job satisfaction. "You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps!"
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For something to be Turing complete, it must be able to solve every problem solvable by any other computer that exists or that could be imagined to exist (such as a Turing machine). And now your life is Turing complete
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The first sentence: Quote: The condition of Turing completeness is almost always explained in terms of the Turing machine
Is it any wonder that I lost interest before reading the second sentence?
It's a unit of measurement, you F*****G moron!
All units of measurement are arbitrary -- but without them, we'd not be able to declare them arbitrary!
Temperature?
It's arbitrarily based on the changes of state of the H2O molecule.
So yes, the condition of how hot it is almost always explained in terms of the hotness of H2O
Distance?
It's arbitrarily based on the length of a thumb, the length of an unnamed person's foot, the disance light can travel in a given time if it's unaffected by gravity/whatever, etc.
So yes, the condition of how far is almost always explained in terms of the any of the above.
<{sigh}> Can't they get someone who's been alive for more than ten minutes to write "articles"?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Companies can technically buy a quantum computer right now, but it's not really the same as a general-purpose computer. It just keeps printing 42,no matter what you ask
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It just keeps printing 42,no matter what you ask
Perhaps, but the machine it will design...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Really! The portable code format should be turned on by default in Firefox and Chrome by the end of the month, with Edge and Safari to follow And the hacks should be around shortly
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Social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest are causing more people to feel alone, according to US psychologists. "Though the place is crowded, you still can find some room"
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With 200 Facebook friends how can I be lonely? 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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I've got 201, you're a total loser 
This is the part where you cry out in agony "WHY DOES NOBODY LOVE MEEE!???  "
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And I was just starting to feel better about myself. Woe is me! 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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I've got 0. And I intend to keep it that way. (I don't have an account with FB, nor will I ever have an account with them)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I was like that up until about two years ago.
Decided to take a LinkedIn account, shortly after a FB account and even a Twitter account.
Twitter is totally useless. LinkedIn has brought me some interesting offers. Facebook let me re-connect with some old friends and there are some interesting reads on my timeline now and then.
Overall I don't regret it. It's not the medium that's evil, but how people use it. Even though I'm on FB I'm still not interested in 100 pictures of your baby (my #1 annoyance) 
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200's way too many, when you consider that the numerical representation of the usefulness of a person is inversely proportional to the number of their "likes"/"follows"*.
You should brag about having -200, not +200.
* Wal's rule 957
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Social media is a weak reflection of inter-personal interaction until there's a "dislike" option.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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A report suggests that more than two hours of social media use a day doubled the chances of a person experiencing social isolation.
I'm sorry, but anyone that spends more than 2 hours a day on social media is a loser. No wonder they experience social isolation.
Another asinine study by so-called psychologists. 
Marc
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In most cases, the systems making claims to artificial intelligence aren’t sentient, self-aware, volitional, or even surprising. They’re just software. You're assuming it was meaningful at some point?
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In further news, "banana sundae" has been found to be meaningless to cretins who don't have a clue what a banana sundae is.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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aren’t sentient, self-aware, volitional, or even surprising
Sadly, that describes some people I know.
Marc
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Microsoft has now responded by doubling their bug bounty for a limited period, meaning security researchers can earn up to $30,000 if they find a serious bug in certain Microsoft services from the 1st March till the 31st May 2017. Need a little pocket cash?
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You must provide your credit card number and will be charged a fee if it is not a bug.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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