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Interviewee "I shall solve this problem using iteration. Is the answer 1?"
Google : "No"
Interviewee "I shall solve this problem using iteration. Is the answer 1+1?"
Google: "No"
Interviewee "I shall solve this problem using iteration. Is the answer 1+1+1?"
Google: "No"
Interviewee: "I am out of stack space. How will I solve this problem?"
Google: "Search me?"
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I find that a surprising amount of programmers I've worked with, don't know how to use a systematic approach for debugging. Dicsuss
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When I was in school, only Turbo Pascal had a debugger.
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You don't need a debugger for debugging skills (but you knew that).
TTFN - Kent
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Yes. I know that.
And it's a skill that seems to atrophy with use of a debugger.
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Not surprised at all. Using a debugger is not an item on the curriculum of the school. It's not a buzzword in resumes. It is, hence, not a required skill to achieve the degree.
..and there's more gems that are never touched upon in class 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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This seems to fall into the same trap that 99% of the articles of this kind do: Computer Science is about Computer Science, not real life programming.
It doesn't matter that everyone expects it to be a 3 year course to learn to be a programmer. It just isn't.
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When Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web 24 years ago he thought he'd created an egalitarian tool that would share information for the greater good. But it hasn't quite worked out like that. What went wrong? "The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What went wrong?
Human being was involved?
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.
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A number of businesses are choosing not to put their data in the cloud. The leader of an open-source project to allow firms to build a Dropbox alternative on their own servers discusses why hype about cloud services is failing to meet reality. You mean people don't really want to put their business in other's hands?
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It can't lose what it never had.
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Yup. Y'all know how I feel about "rented storage".
Tornadoes are clouds too.
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Researchers have had success growing organs in controlled lab environments, but repeating that feat inside a complex, messy animal body? That's more than a little tricky. However, researchers at the University of Edinburgh have managed that daunting feat for the first time. I guess there's hope for my liver after all
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I guess there's hope for my liver after all
I foresee a whole new future for some targetted-spam.
"Grow your new ***** inside a.. ..a mouse?"
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Those would be some mighty frightening mice.
TTFN - Kent
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It would take an elephant to contain a Hammond B3
A Sears Magnus in a German Shepard 
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What makes Twitch such a huge business? Because that was my first question (my third was, "Why didn't I think of that?"
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While improvements in C++14 are "deliberately tiny" compared to C++11, says C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup, they still "add significant convenience for users" and are a step on the route to make C++ "more novice friendly." Variable constants?
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Windows Phone is not only here to stay for the foreseeable future, but it might just be on verge of going big. And the reason I’m saying this is that we’ve seen it happen before, quite recently in fact, and there’s little reason to doubt it will happen again. All the way up to 4% market share?
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ComScore found that six brands -- Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Amazon, and eBay -- built nine of the top 10 mobile apps. "It's no surprise that they're giving none away"
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 Hmm. It's interesting though that Instagram, Whatsapp, and others were all started by individuals and were then bought by one of the large companies mentioned *after* they'd already made the top 10.
Stupid article.Quote: Also, it depends on how you define killer app. Games like Angry Birds break app download records but you don't see it appearing in ComScore's list of apps that people spend the most time in. Depending on monetization strategy, that kind of popularity can still yield a big windfall, but typically only over the short term.
Bingo! In other words, their "top 10 list" is meaningless.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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The ISO wants to standardize software testing, but it's encountering pushback from testers and is unlikely to get uptake in large companies. Does ISO get paid by the standard?
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Once again the pursuit of perfection is the enemy of progress and rather than getting some kind of standard for software testing then improving it we have endless committees of the subclause. The basis of this standard[^] has not moved out of draft since 2007!
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What we need is a standard on how to define ever-changing standards. A meta-standard. Because changing a standard is not standard. But in this case, as with many, it needs to be. So that when a standard changes, the old standard becomes not standard and the new standard becomes standard.
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Less than half of development teams do code reviews and the other half are probably not getting as much out of code reviews as they should. 4 Stars: I laughed, I cried.
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