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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because Marc isn't the only one that feels that way
 Awesome!
Marc
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Why have they used a picture of Rust? 
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As Eric Lippert put it a few years ago when talking about the differences between strongly typed compiled languages and dynamically timed scripting languages is that the former give you a huge set of "unit tests" that are created by the language spec, are automatically updated every time you edit the code, and then are ran every time you click the compile button.
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
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However, the biggest contrast highlighted in the video is between Ruby and Smalltalk, another dynamic language.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Video? Is that linked to somewhere in the article body, even with my content blocker off I'm not seeing one.
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
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Dan Neely wrote: the former give you a huge set of "unit tests" that are created by the language spec
Exactly. And also mirrors my experience -- 50% or more of the coding time is writing tests / single stepping through the Ruby code, simply to make sure there isn't a type problem, a typo, or some other issue.
Marc
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It's even worse if you're working on a short term project and glacial procurement means having to do with only sublime and printf debugging to do all the type/value/etc snooping that an IDE would make much easier.
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
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Dan Neely wrote: It's even worse if you're working on a short term project and glacial procurement
Ugh. I guess slower than the 30 day trial of RubyMine, eh? Eclipse is free though.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Ugh. I guess slower than the 30 day trial of RubyMine, eh?
Potentially. Enough that I didn't want to risk it anyway...
Marc Clifton wrote: Eclipse is free though.
I didn't realize eclipse spoke Ruby. Might have to try it if I ever get another project using it again. As much as I detest it, at least I do know more or less how to use it. 
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
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Lies are a fact of life. But technology may soon make them obsolete. But of course, the article could be lying.
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Easy with dumb liars. It might have trouble with Epimenides. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides_paradox[^]
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
modified 9-Jul-15 22:30pm.
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Quote: dumb liars
Epimenides was a Cretan not a Cretin!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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See On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Idiotsville post wrote: Peoples' data is already being turned against them
Yes, dissidents are easily found using big data - but the lying has not become any less. Ask the most transparent government ever
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Go is an attempt to make programmers more productive. We wanted to improve the software development process at Google, but the problems Google has are not unique to Google. Everything you ever wanted to know about Go, and more
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Disk-image encryption is now included in the virtualization software. Virtualize all the boxes!
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The Gmail Postmaster Tools help qualified high-volume senders analyze their email, including data on delivery errors, spam reports, and reputation. For those who email
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As announced at WWDC last month, Apple is making a beta of its newly updated mobile operating system, iOS 9, available to the general public for testing starting today, alongside the beta version of OS X El Capitan, its updated desktop OS. Because breaking your machine (and phone) is a sign of love
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BETA get it while the gettin's good. 
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There's a critical vulnerability in some versions of the widely used OpenSSL code library that in some cases allows attackers to impersonate cryptographically protected websites, e-mail servers, and virtual private networks, according to an advisory issued early Thursday morning. Did I mention Amazon has released a replacement?
At least partial: S2n[^]
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In a tribute to Windows Server 2003, which reaches its end of life on July 14, disaster recovery provider Databarracks, together with the University of Surrey’s Electronics and Amateur Radio Society, launched a Windows 2003 disk into space. "On its journey back, it amassed so much knowledge, it achieved consciousness itself. It became a living thing."
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Of that "living thing," it merely sat on the couch, ate chips, watched HD sports, and 'amassed' so much weight it paralleled its follow-ons ... you know: bloated.
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I believe that sometimes it’s necessary to reject a bug fix and ask its author to re-do the patch in order to protect the project from bigger problems. "You didn't say, please" didn't make the list?
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Those were OK but sort of stupid reasons, IMO.
Here's my list:
- It doesn't fix the bug
- It introduces other bugs
- You monkey-patched the code instead of fixing the real issue
- You didn't use your brain -- ie, there are wider, fundamental flaws in the business logic
3 is the most commonly used form in duck-typed languages like Ruby, but I've seen it done (and sadly, done it myself) in typed languages as well.
4 I find often enough, again in my code as well, and the temptation to fix the narrow problem rather than say, guys, we need to rethink this whole piece here, is hard to overcome.
(Stupid auto-markdown, can't just type "#3" anymore with the post going nutso.)
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Marc
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