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Or what if one learns, at the end of the day, that what they learned from the book/article they just read, or class they just took, is completely useless?
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Nothing in the original proposition addressed the actual utility of the information consumed.
There - now, thanks to posting on CP you've made days quota!
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Dumb article. Rather than learn a new computer language every year, how about learning the one you use? Where is the most important thing of all; WRITE CODE. Solve problems. Stop getting hung up on patterns and theories.
Rather than ask how a language feature works, how about writing a small console program and finding out? I'm still amazed at how few developers do this.
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"I just taught myself erlang."
"Did you convert your C++ code to use lambdas like I asked?"
Silence.
"I just taught myself erlang."
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Joe Woodbury wrote: "Did you convert your C++ code to use lambdas like I asked?"
I don't, as a rule, use lambda, but I have heard that in some far off lands, they do have a liking for goatsies.
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Participate in local user groups.
Used to be, user groups had actual users doing show-and-tell of either apps they've learned some cool tricks with, or programmers that demo some cool code.
Nowadays, its corporate guests doing a dog & pony of tech I don't need.
The fun of mingling with other geeks, arguing about duck typing vs. strong typing, creating group unity with every b*tching about Javascript, Microsoft, and Linux, those days are gone.
I miss those days.
What do we have instead?
Code camps.  Who wants to hang out with a bunch of Jolt-frenzied child-n00b's writing an app by NPM'ing everything under the sun simply to print "Hello World" ??? Not I.
Marc
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est."
Lardum est potestas 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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"Knowledge itself" is overrated!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Clean Coder Blog: Yes. Of course. You should learn at least one new language every year. And if you do, you'll eventually come to realize that the languages start to become repetitive...
So you'll learn new language to assert they are same. That doesn't add up. I see a waste of time here.
Wonde Tadesse
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This month's delights, including ASP.NET feature slices, Xamarin, Reactive Framework, and so much more All this, and Mary Jane too!
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That's still being published?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yes. You can find it in the toilet paper aisle
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Like, every month. Who knew?!
TTFN - Kent
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They publish a September issue every month? 
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They do sometimes mislabel the month on the cover. 
TTFN - Kent
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But they do get it right once a year. 
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It's a recursive issue.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Microsoft has recursive issues? I suppose you're right.
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Sandwiched between massive Telerik / ComponentSource etc adverts, making the PDF genuinely huge.
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From the article on "Message-Based Business Logic in Practice"
An emerging and more modern approach to software engineering is to look at business events and use such events to gather requirements and build a deeper understanding of the mechanics of the system.
Emerging? Geez, I wrote apps that evented their business logic 25 years ago. That was when we were still using DOS and was implemented C++.
Marc
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I guess you're just ahead of the (Microsoft) times!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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
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Geee what will they think of next? Maybe we should write a document to specify what the requirements are... 
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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Developers of emerging programming languages shed light on the urge to create new tools. Likely it's, "I like everything about this language except this one feature. Time to create a new language!"
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Or, (a la XKCD) "there are too many languages; we need to create one that does everything". 
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Without being snarky (or Sharkey), the problem with new languages (computer or not) is that the creator fail to respect the reasons the languages being "improved upon" are complex. As a result, the new languages are always hopelessly inadequate. Without someone with deep pockets to get over the multi-year process of refining the language (and to provide proper tools), it's a dead end and a gargantuan waste of time.
modified 1-Sep-16 14:48pm.
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Hubinger is a college student who has been interning as a software developer at Yelp.
Or makes for a good dissertation. 
Marc
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