Idiotic programming style edicts
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From: Phil Carmody on 27 Apr 2010 14:43 Patrick Scheible <kkt(a)zipcon.net> writes: > spinoza1111 <spinoza1111(a)yahoo.com> writes: >> "Theory" means it's TRUE and we can KNOW it. > > Sure. I think you're confusing 'theory' with 'theorem'. And confusing spamoza1111 for someone worth wasting your time reading and replying to. Phil -- I find the easiest thing to do is to k/f myself and just troll away -- David Melville on r.a.s.f1
From: Patrick Scheible on 27 Apr 2010 15:32 Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged(a)yahoo.co.uk> writes: > Patrick Scheible <kkt(a)zipcon.net> writes: > > spinoza1111 <spinoza1111(a)yahoo.com> writes: > >> "Theory" means it's TRUE and we can KNOW it. > > > > Sure. > > I think you're confusing 'theory' with 'theorem'. > > And confusing spamoza1111 for someone worth wasting your time > reading and replying to. You're right, my apologies. -- Patrick
From: Charlie Gibbs on 28 Apr 2010 00:02 In article <m3ljc8nbi0.fsf(a)garlic.com>, lynn(a)garlic.com (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes: > raltbos(a)xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) writes: > >> Yup. A very corrupt, untrustworthy professional investment adviser, but >> someone who made his profession out of giving investment advise. > > one might claim that it just represented the culture Sad but true. Many of the people who condemn Madoff would jump at the opportunity to do just what he did. > the person testifying in the congressional hearings into madoff last > year (who had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get the SEC to > do something about Madoff) commented that new regulations may be > needed but by far the most important was improved transparency and > visability. Yeah, and here in British Columbia we have two levels of government - federal and provincial - who both campaigned on a platform of "open, accountable government", only to become so secretive once in power that even their respective Auditors-General can't figure out what's going on (although they have a pretty good idea). -- /~\ cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
From: Kenny McCormack on 27 Apr 2010 23:27 In article <1302.804T1043T12023944(a)kltpzyxm.invalid>, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >In article <m3ljc8nbi0.fsf(a)garlic.com>, lynn(a)garlic.com >(Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes: > >> raltbos(a)xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) writes: >> >>> Yup. A very corrupt, untrustworthy professional investment adviser, but >>> someone who made his profession out of giving investment advise. >> >> one might claim that it just represented the culture > >Sad but true. Many of the people who condemn Madoff would jump at >the opportunity to do just what he did. Isn't that pretty much true of all criminal acts? -- > No, I haven't, that's why I'm asking questions. If you won't help me, > why don't you just go find your lost manhood elsewhere. CLC in a nutshell.
From: Ahem A Rivet's Shot on 27 Apr 2010 12:48
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:34:01 -0400 Michael Wojcik <mwojcik(a)newsguy.com> wrote: > No it's not. It's difficult to get more than a couple months' practice > with them, but it's quite easy to teach and practice those techniques. > You make the students work in decent-sized groups, and work on a large > project that's already in progress. (Roll the project over from > semester to semester.) I like this - they also get to experience the joys of working with other people's code that they haven't got the time to completely rewrite so they have to learn to read and understand it. > Make the students use appropriate techniques > like change management, problem tracking, and the development > methodology of your choice - waterfall, an agile approach such as XP > or Scrum, or whatever. It gets better and better. > The important point is that they use *some* > methodology other than the "stay up all night pounding at the keyboard > on their own private solution to some trivial problem" one beloved of > intro CS courses. For a final feature they could be working on something that they actually have to use. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/ |