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Looking at the functions, chrono/barrier etc require CPU level abstractions, so using the STL versions (which are for the CPU) aren't going to work really.
My basic argument with agile is this - can it be measured that these things are good? Or is it just a pile of piffle built on anecdotal evidence - that people get paid thousands of dollars a day as consultants to espouse?
The industry has a long legacy of this - e.g. designing your classes in UML will solve your problems, or the Rational Unified Process, or prior to that, in the early 90s, Rational Rose diagramming experience was the "must have" on your CV.
One of the more reasonable analysis tools was Use Cases in my view, but most of it is just a bunch of noise, busy-making tasks which Andersen Consulting were more than happy to provide 100 people doing these tasks and bilk some client 100m for the pleasure.
There's no substitute for high quality, intelligent people self-organising. People that want to proceduralise developer behaviour are basically people that want to steal our freedom to be creative and effective, in the manner which befits ourselves as individuals. And make themselves ghastly rich doing it.
I don't see Uncle Bob as all that different, having hung out in the Agile evangelist scene in London for a while - they are all on the lam.
In my opinion.
Many user interfaces don’t have easily testable abstract interfaces, and user features are first tackled by expressing changes to a user interface.
You really have to jump through hoops to make the reality of coding meet the theoretical model.
If you get a feel for F# I'm sure it will be an easy leap to OCaml if you decide to do it later.
Incidentally I've just been running through the Advent of Code in F# over the last few days - I do think the toolset for F# is very kind for a new learner.
After all, you have to write the tests for the classes, before the classes exist.
When you do so, then start to fill in the code, and then realise you need to refactor, you have a heap of tests you need to refactor. It always appeared to me highly inefficient and predicated on an assumption that the author can express his class heirarchies well ahead of the coding.
In my experience, the class design is highly iterative, even the names of methods, what methods you have, etc - to have to write the tests before you've written the code just creates a huge amount of impediments to the flow of expressing a solution.
This is not a criticism of unit testing - but of TDD.
There are other costs from outages which occur infrequently but are highly costly because developers/support are manually touching the servers.
The cost really should be analysed as what is the median cost on revenue (or profit) as a percentage point. One off pricing is pretty meaningless.
You don't get a choice if your uncle, grandmother, aunt, niece or son share their DNA with law enforcement.
For example, if you able to capture what the meaning of a programming language is, then could you please demonstrate by communicating what "the meaning of the programming language" C is, for instance? This appears to be a nonsensical combination of words, as I do not recognise a programming language as having an intrinsic meaning?
There is also a very valid counterargument. Apple maintain the quality of apps on their app story by being a censor.
There are a lot of ways to scam people or bug their devices, and by and large Apple also create a sufficiently safe environment for iOS users.
There do seem to be two aspects in conflict, but good for DHH for kicking this off. 30% is obcene.
Spending time studying operating systems and compilers (both things I've studied) at the cost really submersing yourself in the maths of probability seems to me to be a misallocation of a scarce resource (time).
e.g. a course in Bayesian statistics, and also in traditional statistical inference would be useful (for instance, this gives a good foundation for understanding the EM algorithm.)
Normally her death might not have made the national press.
I find that nearly as disagreeable as the original posting.
For instance, of a spreadsheet computing values.
A more common use-case, however, is of trivially parallelizable problems which are completely isolated. Consider Monte-Carlo simulation for instance, where the thread hand-off to workers is done by a queue.
Making categorical statements like this political and unhelpful, and is one of the things that annoys me the most about IT culture.
Naively it seems a trivial problem, but I guess that SEO for SPA is not as trivial as I imagine?
Regarding the Weimar Republic, I don’t know the history So your analogy is wasted on me, but to suggest the Tories are proto-Nazis seems absurd to me.
In truth, electorally the Tories would far rather face Corbyn and the tankies at each election. Starmer looks like he's going to be a far greater challenge. It is good however that there is a functioning opposition that will apply effective scrutiny now, as that is good for governance, whether you're on the left or the right of things.
"He gasped in astonishment as I carefully explained the results of the double-slit experiment."
Surely more like that this describes a 6yo kid being excited about something their parent is excited about and a product of implicit empathy, than any significant insight?
I hate to lose reputation with downvotes for sounding negative, but I find my credulity challenged with this story.
Indeed, it's a fiduciary obligation to the shareholders given they are a listed company.
Perhaps he was pushing code from his holiday in Crimea and his IP got tagged. Something like that would possibly do it.
I'm in Sydney and we see Amazon do a lot of recruitment sessions here.
Unknowable ad-hoc, unversioned spreadsheets running much of the capital of the company.
However, the UK does not share the history of the continental countries of being occupied by their neighbours.
The compact "I surrender much of my sovereignty for security from being periodically exterminated by my neighbours" - has a very different balance on the scales for the country of the UK than it does for countries with a recent memory of occupation, that have seen large percentages of their populations dying from violence in continental wars going back centuries.