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Kent Sharkey wrote: Writing Windows apps in JavaScript is like hammering in nails with a screwdriver
...and missing, resulting in the screwdriver head wedging itself beneath the fingernail of your thumb.
Marc
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JavaScript has it place - for good and bad, but pushing it to everywhere just be the 'cool' man of the party...I sometime pity Microsoft for that behavior...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Side projects help you open new doors, explore new vistas, and keep you sharp in your career. In this article, David Gewirtz shows how side projects can pay out in completely unexpected and wonderful ways. "Keep on the sunny side of life"
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They pay in a great way, experience!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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One of the difficulties with side projects (and it is something that CP were perhaps looking at back when they were looking at ::Workspaces) is that they tend to be solo runs, whereas the most productive and impactful learning tends to come from collaborative small groups.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: whereas the most productive and impactful learning tends to come from collaborative small groups.
I haven't really experienced that -- that sounds great, but my experience is that small groups tend to devolve to the lowest common denominator. At least, doing projects solo, I don't get divide by 0 errors.
Marc
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Agreed that does happen - especially if the group is externally enforced/selected.
However I also find that a sounding board can help stop me going too far down a rabbit hole...I went way too far down one such when I was working on a data access library so am wary of this now.
Maybe I am the lowest common denominator - that would explain both our experiences
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Discussing the vital parts genius and failure play in creation. I think the important part is making the switch at some point
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Looks like he should have horns.
I'm not giving any appliance my wifi password.
Wait you don't suppose that's why Comcast wants to hot spot every neighborhood!? <doh>
modified 26-Mar-15 22:44pm.
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Quote: you must fail first
Bullshit. You shouldn't be afraid of faulure, but there is no requirement that you fail.
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We want to make the Internet a better place for everyone – by getting rid of obnoxious ads. "Advertising is based on one thing, happiness. "
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You can’t practice Test Driven Development on something that isn’t testable in the first place. Is that a test question?
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Don't get all testy about it.
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If a quiz is quizzical, then what is a test?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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eh? You can't do test driven development at all if the thing you are going to test already exists...if it doesn't exist then when you make it you can make it testable.
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If I can't be trusted to write code; why would you trust me to write tests?
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That's amusing. I was just saying to a friend of mine this morning that I have to rip out a bunch of code because it's more a patchwork of patches than anything else at this point. And the first order of business would be to write it in such a way that it is unit-testable!
Marc
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The AV-TEST ran an evaluation of Windows 8.1 antivirus protection and posted their results yesterday. Free only buys you so much
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Hyperpolyglot is an awesome tool for looking up the differences and similarities between programming languages and tools. "I'm kinda buzzed and it's all because this is how we do it."
Yes, it's a Leslie, but seeing as how that was 2011, and only for a subset of these languages, sue me.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: sue me Who's sue and why should I want "use" her on you? Eww, that's gross.
#SupportHeForShe 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 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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More than half of all Internet Explorer (IE) users have less than 10 months to discard their browsers, and either update to a new edition of IE or dump Microsoft for one of its browser-making rivals. If only there was an alternative!
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“Code can be judged on its aesthetic merits, not just practical merits” "An algorithm must be seen to be believed."
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Hello World is an algorithm?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Apparently. I certainly hope he wrote a test first though.
TTFN - Kent
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Excellent, I have a proof that P != NP, how much will it get
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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