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Java coloured, me thinks. The pinks would be for the study showing how great Rails is. Not sure about the colour (or possibility) for Node.
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TTFN - Kent
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Added link for the correct looks in my previous post. 
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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ZDNET[^]:
Microsoft's Corporate Vice President of IE, Dean Hachamovitch, is taking on a new role on an unspecified team at the company.
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Back in January 2012, developers didn't seem to be in love with writing native apps for Windows 8. Are they any more keen today? "There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up."
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I wonder why! It may be because we just tired of the high speed platform switching (with no real fresh things in it) and the lack of backward compatibility...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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"If you're not a developer, it's the de facto place where developers go to get questions answered. It's a "barometer of heartache". If you're trying to develop some software, at some point you will run into a difficult problem, and you will seek solace in Stack Overflow."
Oh dear.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: you will seek solace in Stack Overflow
Makes it sound like a dating site or something, doesn't it?
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TTFN - Kent
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If, by that, you mean somewhere that you will ultimately end up in an abusive relationship then, yes.
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We don’t need to try and kill every if statement, but perhaps the more we do, the better our code becomes. Conditional surrender
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But! What if you really need an if? Can we save some for future use?
(http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm[^])
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Smalltalk never had an if-statement. In some contexts its been dead for 30 years.
someCondition ifTrue [ ... ] ifFalse: [ ... ].
Looks much like an if statement, but is really sending messages to the value of someCondition.
The rest of the world will catch up one day.
ps. Intentionally not formatted as code - the code formatter doesn't suit Smalltalk.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I love the replies, geeks being geeks offer little critique of the code but plenty of "If it was me, I'd [...]"
speramus in juniperus
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Yeah, that's the real reason why we can't get to "software engineering" IMO: even if someone developed the perfect algorithm for something, every other dev would go, "Yeah, but that doesn't really work for me."
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TTFN - Kent
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Thank God it was real engineers who put man on the moon and not the software variety...
speramus in juniperus
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"how less fewer control structures lead to better code" (fixed that for him)
Yes, but, much of that is simply sweeping things under the rug -- Linq in particular merely hides loops and such, which is still OK, but don't say "there is no loop", only "I didn't have to write a loop".
Anyway, yes, many ifs can and should be eliminated -- and not with ternaries.
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Older software programmers have long complained of age discrimination. But according to study conducted by researchers at North Carolina State University, companies should think twice before hiring a young hot-shot hacker over a seasoned developer. Even better? A developer drinking scotch
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Even better? An old (aged?) developer drinking old scotch...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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:politeCough:
Gin. Always gin.
speramus in juniperus
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Luke Skywalker had it right. Push away the screen and go with The Force from time to time. "An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age."
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DDoS tool targets the federal Affordable Care Act website. But will it work? Didn't the developers already do that?
modified 10-Nov-13 18:37pm.
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(i.e. already to that -> already do that)
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Not grammar in this case, just spelling/typing skills, but thank you!
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TTFN - Kent
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Amazon dominates the cloud, but IBM, strengthened by its SoftLayer acquisition, has unleashed a marketing campaign that fires on all cylinders. Whether IBM's cloud is, in fact, better may matter less than Amazon's ability to challenge a company that's made many competitors crumble over the past 102 years. “Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill”
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As is often the case with satellite reentry, no one's exactly sure when, where, or how GOCE will come crashing down. Much of the craft will burn up in this atmosphere, but there's at least a chance that some chunks will make it to the surface — the thought of a single flaming pound of white-hot space debris hitting your car or house is terrifying enough, but The New York TImes reports that pieces as large as 200 pounds could hit the ground. Heads up!
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