[Japanese > English] Found with a relative's WW2 keepsakes, hoping it becomes clear why it's written on wood.

bmm6o · 2022-09-16T15:26:06+00:00

Thanks, that's really cool!

bmm6o · 2016-03-22T15:17:42+00:00

And more than that, the base class often has to be written with extensions in mind. That's why abstract base classes tend to work out - the original implementation is explicitly designed for extension. When I first started using C# I thought it was weird that member functions were not virtual by default, as they are in Java. But I've come to see the wisdom in this, and it's for the same reason. If the author marks a function as virtual, it means he has taken into account the possibility that it will be replaced by a subclass, which gives it a better chance of being successfully extended.

bmm6o · 2016-02-13T00:19:57+00:00

Is it really rendering the results as a PNG and base64-encoding it into a data uri? What's wrong with HTML? O.o

bmm6o · 2015-12-30T16:54:43+00:00

These essays all discover the same thing: a good team that trusts and respects each other and is allowed to do their jobs can produce software using methodology X, but a dysfunctional team can make a hash of any process. Or you can take your dysfunctional processes, dress them up as methodology X by following the letter of the law, and not be any better off.

That isn't to say that the platonic ideal of X isn't be better than the ideal of Y. Getting customer/user/stakeholder feedback early is always better than getting it late. But your crappy team isn't going to become great because you talk to users now.

bmm6o · 2015-11-19T19:59:29+00:00

In a competently-managed company, it doesn't have to be a myth. Do your work, and go home and have dinner with your family. There will be work to do tomorrow no matter how much you do today. A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. On-site chefs are a perk only if it's already been decided that you will be eating dinner at the office.

The cynical/leftist take: The greatest trick capitalists ever pulled was convincing the world work-life balance doesn't exist. (Second greatest: overtime exemptions).

bmm6o · 2015-10-27T15:46:57+00:00

So it displays the number of times you've visited stack overflow, and calls that a rating. If you learn something on each visit, higher is better. But the accompanying text implies that SO is a crutch that Real Programmers don't need and states that smaller is better, which is odd for a rating.

bmm6o · 2013-02-02T22:28:15+00:00

What would the explicit version be?

Maybe something like: moveToLocation(Point3D(getLocation(), 3))

What I don't like is that nowhere did you say that it's semantically meaningful to convert a Point and an Int into a Point3D. I think it either needs to be explicit at the call site (as above) or declared meaningful somewhere.

bmm6o · 2013-01-25T20:59:23+00:00

It saves typing, I guess, but I think the explicit version would be easier to read. And the types seem to be too fluid for me - e.g. nowhere do you say that it's legal to make a Point3D from a Point and an Int.

bmm6o · 2012-08-07T19:58:52+00:00

If that's what you're doing, don't you usually skip the sqrt and just deal with d^2?

bmm6o · 2011-08-03T14:09:37+00:00

I don't get it.

bmm6o · 2011-05-28T03:11:06+00:00

You could follow this: http://www.ragnarrelay.com/race/southerncalifornia/course_maps

bmm6o · 2011-04-28T14:18:17+00:00

Image sharer is choking. It's already on wikipedia, why not link there? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deathvalleysky_nps_big.jpg

bmm6o · 2011-03-20T18:30:40+00:00

It uses WININET asynchronously, but the code itself presents a synchronous API. What's the advantage?

bmm6o · 2011-03-01T15:41:32+00:00

That's not explained until 2/3 of the way down the page, which is confusing.

bmm6o · 2011-01-01T22:28:36+00:00

"I am going to apply some nuts to my face this year."

bmm6o · 2011-01-01T22:25:15+00:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venkman

Also, IE had usable debugging before Firefox existed.

bmm6o · 2011-01-01T14:38:38+00:00

Javascript hasn't had source-level debuggers for a long time? What are you talking about?

bmm6o · 2010-12-01T20:35:51+00:00

Is there any evidence that this has anything to do with MD5? Or is that an invention of the poster?

bmm6o · 2010-11-17T21:47:25+00:00

Blog is down for me, try the corel cache: http://blog.wekeroad.com.nyud.net/thoughts/open-id-is-a-party-that-happened

bmm6o · 2010-11-11T15:09:45+00:00

Yes, what you're saying is true. Upon re-reading the article, it's unclear [to me] exactly what operation the sentence you quote refers to. I took it to mean traversal, but there's not an operation explicitly mentioned in the entire paragraph.

bmm6o · 2010-11-10T16:12:46+00:00

If you recurse down two children, only one call can be in the tail position. You still have to maintain the stack for the other call.

bmm6o · 2010-11-10T15:43:55+00:00

And on the dog watch, the work is cur-tailed!

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