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...considered harmful > Death Marches Considered Harmful
Posted 12 October 2012
Some Lessons Learned...
...considered harmful > My First Scala "Hulk Smash" moment
Posted 17 September 2012
Scala has tuples. Great, I like tuples. Immutable sequences, quite handy.
Here's one:
Cool. So how do I get a value out of one of these guys? Like this:
Here's one:
scala> val triple = (1,2,3)triple: (Int, Int, Int) = (1,2,3)
Cool. So how do I get a value out of one of these guys? Like this:
scala> triple._1res6: Int = 1...
...considered harmful > How do you pronounce xBB?
Posted 17 May 2012
I was recently reminded of this, which I originally posted in the xkcd fora some months ago, but I figured some DIC folks might enjoy it as well:
Binary, hex, and so forth are written (or coded, or otherwise nonverbal) systems for representing numeric values. Typically, if you need to express a numeric value verbally, you use decimal. If you need...
Binary, hex, and so forth are written (or coded, or otherwise nonverbal) systems for representing numeric values. Typically, if you need to express a numeric value verbally, you use decimal. If you need...
...considered harmful > Murach's Java Programming, 4th Edition
Posted 12 February 2012
A review of Murach's Java Programming (4th Ed.)
Joel Murach, www.murach.com
ISBN 978-1-890774-65-3
Murach's introduction to Java would make an reasonably good textbook in a lecture-driven course. The explanations of individual procedures are clear and simple. However, as a guide for self-study, it is lacking in important areas. There is...
Joel Murach, www.murach.com
ISBN 978-1-890774-65-3
Murach's introduction to Java would make an reasonably good textbook in a lecture-driven course. The explanations of individual procedures are clear and simple. However, as a guide for self-study, it is lacking in important areas. There is...
...considered harmful > "I'll get to it when..." considered harmful.
Posted 28 December 2011
This was something I wrote in one of the many "which language should I learn" threads. (link)
I wrote it last night, and I still think it's good, so I'm going to put it here. This is in response to someone who said, paraphrasing, "I'll learn C++ now, and I'll come back to the C later on."
I recognize this,...
I wrote it last night, and I still think it's good, so I'm going to put it here. This is in response to someone who said, paraphrasing, "I'll learn C++ now, and I'll come back to the C later on."
I recognize this,...
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