Can address it by writing code that doesn’t depend much on indentation, which also makes code more linear and easier to follow.
Can address it by writing code that doesn’t depend much on indentation, which also makes code more linear and easier to follow.
Call their bluff!
If they’re SO concerned and want help signing bans for imaginary problems into law, there are plenty of real issues worth trading for in exchange.
E.g. from now on, schools nationwide are additionally funded to both prohibit litterboxes for students that identify as cats and provide free and healthy school lunches.
There’s the practical distinction between “everyone can do it with some dedicated intent” (so few actually bother) vs “everyone can do it on a whim”
Seems it depends on which elite/establishment, going by Wikipedia’s definition: “populism” is the political stance of “the people” against “the elite/establishment”
So by that defn, both of these examples qualify:
All methods? Of course not. Just methods like these.
I really dislike code like that. Code like that tends to lie about what it says it does and have non-explicit interactions/dependencies.
The only thing I can really be certain from that is:
doAnything();
if(doAnything2()) {
doAnything3();
}
I.e. almost nothing at all because the abstractions aren’t useful.
I agree with the author overall, and I think it can be more straightforwardly stated. IMO it’s the idea that wrong abstractions are even worse than other ills like duplication or god classes/modules. It’s also reminiscent of “modules should be deep”.
I’ve heard of publishing software to design photo albums/scrapbooks/cards etc. Is there a photo collection manager for archiving, sorting and filtering?
Given access to a large set of personal photos, say tens of thousands, it should be able to group, categorize, tag, and sort along a myriad of dimensions.
Example dimensions would be time, people and places. It would need some facial recognition/image classifier/similarity scoring capability.
There definitely are some cloud offerings today that do similar things, but I’d want it to work locally for privacy and practical reasons.
If it takes 1+ hours of work to remove a feature flag branch in an area of code, I wouldn’t trust the correctness of anything the AI writes and would be super skeptical about anything the humans had written.
The synchronization problem (flakiness and all the waits) is tricky to get right. Browsers are concurrent systems, and programming around one is specialized enough that many devs don’t do it well, e.g. IMO if you’re adding ad-hoc waits or nesting timeouts, you’ve already lost.
Good code is code that’s easy to delete.
I’m not a game dev, but it’s got a reputation for being more of a software engineering shit show than other software industries, which your story only reinforces.
Fine for prototyping, but adds a scaling tech debt “time bomb” for a live system. Those associations had better be really sparse.
So… a polymorphic many-to-many join table?
If talking about a closed source app, their whole goal is to move off of hosting closed source systems.
Article says the decision follows a successful pilot project, so they’re willing to absorb the short term costs. Optimistically in the long run, the symbiotic benefits of having a government entity using and supporting a full FOSS system will be huge.
One of the best use cases is implementing abstract data types and hiding the memory management and other potentially unsafe optimization tricks behind a clean and high level abstraction.
Also since it’s a logical/mathematical construct and not attempting to model the real world (like business logic), it’s one case where inheritance hierarchies will remain stable.
I feel a lot of advice here is trying to push the learning envelope without considering fun & the learning experience. This is for an 8 yr old, and I’m seeing suggestions that would seriously challenge high schoolers, college students, and even some software engineers in industry I’ve encountered.
For the software aspects of programming, I would suggest looking at programming(-esque) games and web browser programming environments. Here’s a solid short list, vaguely sorted from “proramming-esque” to “actual programming”:
Suggestions to go physical tinkering with electronics is good, but I’m unable to make good suggestions there.
A real computer and coding environment/shell could be good for system admin skills, but the learning curve is steep. You’ll also have to be okay with letting him accidentally brick the computer (best way to learn!).
Disagree with Docker and git at this stage of learning. This is an 8yr old playing with scratch, Minecraft, and early levels of CodeAcademy.
The answer to “not dealing with environment” isn’t Docker, it’s a programming(-esque) game or an in-browser environment.
IMO okay advice for specific types of issues, but way too prescriptive to work well generally.
Steps 3-4-5 are good, and breaking it down like that could be helpful to readers, but in my mind, it should be so well practiced and executed so naturally that it feels like a single step. I also think there ought to have been a mention of the fast iterative experimentation where 3-4-5 is repeated.
Break the build (and block other devs)? Is this a 1-team company?
Write a test first? Maybe, if you’ve already got a well isolated, somewhat understood problem whose solution won’t require deeper restructuring.
Immediately “Brainstorm as many hypotheses … as you can think of”? Inefficient if you already have a good idea of what’s wrong (wasting time guessing), and also inefficient if you have absolutely no idea what’s wrong (wasting time with uneducated guesses).
Ooh yeah PR as patches, persistent despite rebases, would be nice.
Many git operations fundamentally have three SHAs as parameters (tree operations after all), and GitHub’s model simplifies it down to two.
One of the best tutorials on really “grokking”
git
concepts, and it’s online and interactive: https://learngitbranching.js.orgFor programming, start with buildings things for yourself. Be practical, start small, and iterate, regardless if you consider the previous iteration was a success or failure. I’ve heard good things about https://automatetheboringstuff.com/ (in Python) in this regard.