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I think you snipped too much.
Quote: What is Nitra?
As a reminder, Nitra is a framework for the next generation of language tooling.
Unless you read jetbrain's blog religiously and have a very good memory (it's been over half a year since they mentioned it), you'd have no idea what it is or why you should care.
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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Fair enough, I'll add it to the text for the newsletter.
TTFN - Kent
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Before joining Microsoft and becoming one of its most important software engineers, Mark Russinovich was in the business of pissing the company off. "Change comes from within"
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Mark Russinovich a personal hero.
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Long! Instapapered.
Kevin
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Agreed! His "fight" with Sony's root-kit was legendary.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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If you can beat 'em, do your worst and then eventually join 'em.
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These aren’t rules or engineering guidelines. They’re simply the principles that I pay attention to when I write and operate code. "I don't believe in principle, But, I do in interest."
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"...my personal engineering principals."
'Nuff said.
/ravi
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Sure, headlines are always (ALWAYS!) hyperbole.
TTFN - Kent
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Why would engineers want to know coding principles? Isn't that like saying they should know accounting principles? Or agricultural principles?
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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:rollseyes: Well, I'm assuming he means 'software engineer', and context would help there, but sure.
On the other hand, yes, I do think engineers should know accounting principles. Ag principles? I suppose depending on the type of engineer?
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm assuming he means 'software engineer'
Ah, self aggrandizement in a blog post; how quaint.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Engineering field comes with a discipline where one has to follow the principles and practices. Although the author might not have specifically said about Software Engineer, still every Engineer irrespective of their field will have their own principles. Today everyone jumps in and codes but do they all become "Good or Great Programmers", Yes if they do follow the fundamental principles.
BTW The Ten Commandments that a person follows is nothing but "Biblical principles".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments[^]
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When I was in school I went to the principle pretty often and he was real interested in the trouble I got in. He had a paddle with my name on it...
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Nice article.
How about an article "Engineering Principles Every Developer Should Know"?
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I agree with most of what he says. I would also add RTFM.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I'm getting a 404 on that article
anyone else?
Bryce
MCAD
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One of these "First rule of optimizing: don’t." reminds me of Martin Fowler's "First Law of Distributed Object Design: Don't distribute your objects" (Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Getting hacked is bad enough for any company -- just ask eBay -- but it’s even worse (and certainly more embarrassing) when the firm in question is responsible for producing security software designed to protect us from the dangers on the web. Physician, heal thyself?
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That's just... sad.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Hackers are demanding ransoms to unlock devices that were locked with the Find My iPhone tool, according to forum posts. 5ëNd MØNéÿ °R ¶HØNë gE†§ |t
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When I first saw this headline I read it as "Apple users held hostage using Find My iPhone". Now that would have been like something out of a movie. And a much more serious crime.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Now we have moved on to cover temperature sensors, a very important part of the work we do relating to solar water heating systems. Being able to control a pump based on the temperature of one or more sensors is very powerful, but Halogen Leak Detector makes it (relatively easy) to also monitor those sensors over the internet and track the exact state of the system in real time remotely while also logging the data.
We have recently added this article on using the Wireless Remote-controlled Aquarium Pet Temperature Control with Raspberry Pi: DS18B20 and Raspberry Pi.
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