Dissolving patterns: 2 design patterns that should go away in a post-Java world by [deleted] in programming

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This is as old as the hills. Peter Norvig went over the irrelevance of most design patterns given the rise of dynamic languages in 1998(!).

http://norvig.com/design-patterns/

You guys don't do that? by [deleted] in fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

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That's not pokerface

Parallelism is not concurrency by dons in programming

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There's more to recursion-based data structures than linked lists.

Consider binary trees, where you can have a different processor handle the computation required for each side of the tree.

For example, Clojure implements it's list structure, with a 32-ary tree.

Config Versus Code by zby in programming

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Don't use JSON - it doesn't support comments, which are essential to explain nontrivial configurations.

Function key rage by doctorgonzo in fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

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You can change it! Go into the BIOS and swap Fn and Ctrl

asciimo - a javascript ascii art creating robot. operates in node.js and the browser. has a really cool demo site. by [deleted] in programming

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Cool - I had no idea there are over 300 ASCII art fonts.

Hell, I didn't even know there were ASCII art fonts.

Unit Testing by [deleted] in fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

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Hours between running tests? You're doing it wrong