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Just like 1 + 1, the concept of mathematical equality is one that is far from simple or universal – and that’s becoming a big problem. How about equalish?
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Well there is
Java == (because = is the assignment operator)
Delphi = (because := is the assignment operator)
Javascript has == AND === (I'll let someone else explain that)
Is this what they are meaning? Because other than that, 2 = 2 doesn't seem that complicated.
No it isn't becoming a big problem, it's only a big problem for mathematicians who don't operate in the real world.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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The math is beyond my interest level, but it does seem to be very much an edge case scenario. Something along the lines of “how can we tell that these two sets are completely identical?”
Plus, it gives him a chance to take a lame potshot at Russell.
Yeah, math jerk.
TTFN - Kent
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Hmm... I didn't read it as a swipe at Russell.
I did read it as similar/related to some fringe stuff I was saying about Terrence Howard's assertion that 0 does not exist though. Pretty sure he happens to be right about that one.
To have =, you need 0. Why? Because that's the supposed 'difference' on either side? Integers are useful illusions. It's fine and very useful to pretend, but if there is no real-world corollary, it's definitely just pretending?
The Piraha of the Amazon have no real concept of numbers, no words for them. From what I understand, it goes back to their culture basically thinking there is no =. No two stones, fruits, whatever, are alike, and so you can't really "equate" them just by assigning an integer and to do so is so foreign it's not even taboo, but just impossible.
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(1 egotistical mathematician) + (concept of equality) = idiot.
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Well, neither are programmers.
Consider:
class A
{
};
class B : public A
{
}
bool operator=(A const& lhs, A const& rhs);
B b;
A a = b;
if (a == b) {
}
You could claim that the result should be "false", because a and b are manifestly not equal, but the Standard requires us to compare only the 'A' components of each variable, and therefore a and b are equal.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Makes me think of that English teacher pointing out to the student: "That that that that that refers to is is not the same that that that that refers to!" 
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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1 + 1 = 3 for very large values of 1.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Wells Fargo fired more than a dozen employees from its wealth and investment management division in May after the bank investigated claims that they were faking work, according to a media report. If the mouse is jerking, I might be working
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The real question is why is Wells Fargo using keyboard activity to define productivity? It sounds to me like those workers figured out management's game and exploited it.
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Technically, they could be playing solitaire....
That's not the best story of being "productive." Where is that story where the engineer outsourced his work to someone in China?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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The days where engineers only take orders from higher ups and complete the tasks they are told to do may be over. ...really? Really?!
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At least the circle is swinging back towards the saner side now!
The problem is that all shops are scattered all around it on the timeline so it's like a box of chocolates.
The rise of Agile saw PMs and walking talking bags of acronyms trying to wedge themselves between developers and business because that's the only way many of them could have ever remotely been perceived to be providing value.
I don't know how it is that we can have people driving a bus without input from the technical when most stakeholders and business leaders are decidedly less technical than the people they are paying to build their tech.
In my view, everyone should be a "dev"... Not really, just know enough that they could take an entry level job as a coder and do ok. That's unrealistic, but it's more the bar/goal where I think we should be for how much technology drives all of our lives. A modicum of understanding is simply prudent and the world would be better for it.
The big problem with this sticking the nerds in a closet and letting the others chuck workload over the fence is that you just don't ever know what you don't know. Trying totally ignore your ignorance will not make mis-steps or missed opportunities arising from lack of knowledge any better. It does go both ways... there are plenty of 'domain' things and such developers do not know. You really really want them to. They're not going to 'get there' if they're not included.
It's not that developers need to "drive the business". It's that if you aren't strapping them in and asking them to help navigate, you can't really expect anything but failure or a success that fell far short of its potential.
It does take all kinds too though. The real word is collaboration. It's been quietly maligned since the first IBM PC. Rather than have corporo-political power structures eroded/altered, many have the inclination to chuck it under a bus. There's nothing wrong with a dev who doesn't really get the business domain (depending), or an exec/stakeholder who doesn't understand tech. The problems come from having all that with basically no linkage between them aside from someone who has a degree in burndown charts.
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While Windows 11’s Paint Creator uses Microsoft’s cloud to generate AI images based on your prompts, Paint Cocreator turns your drawing/outline into an AI masterpiece locally, thanks to NPU. Or to put it another way: another feature you won't be using
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I can't even figure out how to use the Paint 3D app, and now this!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Microsoft will evaluate its employees’ cybersecurity contributions in reviews that will factor into their compensation, Brad Smith, the company’s vice chair and president, said ahead of a Thursday U.S. House committee hearing on the software maker’s security practices. In related news: Windows team now owe the company money
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What does Brad Smith contribute to cybersecurity I wonder.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The platform’s job search tool is also getting a boost, thanks to generative AI. ...which will then be turfed by the recruiter's AI resume processing tool
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do not use linked in. You've been warned. Or at least use a disposable email account.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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“Clean Code” has garnered a bit of notoriety despite coining an endearing term we use in coding conversations. Because sometimes you want your code a little unclean
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Read the article, author has some good points. One thing I would have done was use a switch over a bunch of if/else's. Author's refactor of the original is also something I would approve.
Not that anyone was asking.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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I was in a car with several greenhorns.
One of them said they were in it for the precision. Like math. As though there were explicitly correct answers/ways of getting things done. I found that humorous but couldn't really explain to them why.
I feel like the segment of our tribe which came by similar footsteps as that line of thinking though... Upon discovering it doesn't really exist, they set about construction of these various frameworks for perfection and pedantry. Like facades built for personal security these guardrails protecting from the great unknown.
It's not all at all bad. It's only the purists I can't stomach. We can entertain "true TDD" or whatever we want from a theoretical/discussion sort of stance. That's awesome. However, I think for some purists this is explicitly antithetical to their puritanical goal of nailing down the 'one right answers' and then never thinking about them or discussing them again.
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I'm not sure I agree with most of the points made. In my 35 years of writing software, I have _never_ seen code anally refactored to stupid silly functions. Does this really help understanding? Supportability? I'd say meh.
private void createPluralDependentMessageParts(int count) {
if (count == 0) {
thereAreNoLetters();
} else if (count == 1) {
thereIsOneLetter();
} else {
thereAreManyLetters(count);
}
}
Ten days until my retirement sabbatical, but the opening brace on every function or conditional drives me to drink. And yes, I know that's a religious argument. Sure, you save one line on the page, but it just seems to make the code compressed and hard to scan.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Elaborate scheme involved hidden camera and an earpiece to hear answers. Did he also get an A+ for the system he developed?
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VIC, the bot, will make decisions for the "meat puppet" who shows up at meetings. Probably better than the current crop of politicians
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