mendicant

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by mendicant 12y ago
Psssst. The OP of this article who criticizes Jeff is Jacob Kaplan-Moss. ie: A male.
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by mendicant 13y ago
There are certain languages and situations where the pattern does make sense. But as a heavy C# coder, I find that more often than not you're dealing with a class heavy codebase where it's more important that you _don'_ do fo
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by mendicant 13y ago
I can understand the reason for it being there, but I also tend to fall towards following the Law of Demeter. I tend to find that most (not all) of the use cases of this are a symptom of overly intimate knowledge between objects that really
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by mendicant 13y ago
The question I have about this: Does making it easy to do parent?.child?.grandchild?.property help or hinder the software development process in the long term?
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C# is getting “?.”, sometimes called the Safe Navigation Operator(blogs.msdn.com)
27 points by mendicant 13y ago|10 comments
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by mendicant 13y ago
Okay, but the guy says he bought it in Jan of 2013 and waited over a year to try and activate the offer. Many of these offers are time bombs and sometimes for good reason. I'm not so sure I'm ready to pick up my pitchfork if this
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by mendicant 13y ago
I will start by saying that the sentiment of this is simple and true. The value added by the "Unlock All" button in it's simplicity is valid. But they didn't "just add a button" they also added over 3x the cont
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by mendicant 13y ago
I can agree to a point. But my question is, what if the app doesn't, and isn't ever meant to, support a large number of users? What if even with the concurrency issues, it's fast enough?
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by mendicant 14y ago
I like the idea, but it crashes Opera.
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by mendicant 14y ago
I have to agree. Two things have happened here to make me see it: - Taking on a role with more responsibility, leadership requirements and business knowledge - Starting my own business where I get to make decisions (with my co-founder) I se
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by mendicant 14y ago
He's basically a step away from having several objects (let's call them handlers) which can do your handling for you. Further, they can define the set of circumstances in which they are valid. I'm going to work with a couple of assumptions:
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by mendicant 14y ago
Children's minds are built to soak in information. You could wait until a kid was 10 to introduce them to computers and they would still blow your mind with what they could figure out and do. I highly doubt that holding off on video games a
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by mendicant 15y ago
I spent nearly a year building a SaaS application for Oil and Gas companies here in Calgary. My partner had the idea after he got tired of phoning/emailing/talking to every contact in his book in order to find partners/buyers in land deals.
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by mendicant 15y ago
true, but they kind of go hand in hand. The nice part about named params is that it can make your code more clear if you have a lot of parameters on a method... but you could do the same thing by introducing a parameter object and be as cle
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by mendicant 15y ago
My point is: If your class/code/file is so big that you need to hide code to be able to easily navigate (or worse, understand) it, you're doing something wrong. I understand this is a religious argument of the code world and you're likely t
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by mendicant 15y ago
Yup. There's so many of these that are either irresponsible (Hiding code) or of limited usefulness (IsNullOrEmpty) or too limited to be truly useful (Named Parameters). Hiding Code: I've got an idea. If you've got to hide code, maybe it _do
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by mendicant 15y ago
First off, I love the idea. Secondly, I can't sign up for the weekly email. It says: Cannot POST /new
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by mendicant 15y ago
I've used it since v5. I love it, but seem to think about switching every once in a while, but no one seems to have mouse gestures which can match Opera's. Also, I love the speed dial.
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by mendicant 15y ago
Many will notice if a shortened url goes to another shortener and give a 'security notice'.
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by mendicant 15y ago
That's part of it. But the author should articulate it. There is also certain (specific) situations where the original code (e.NewItem as Customer).Save() would fail but ((Customer)e.NewItem).Save() wouldn't. That specific case is where the
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by mendicant 15y ago
Yes, null refs are bad. But so is an InvalidCastException -- Which is what your new code could throw.
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by mendicant 15y ago
I really like it. Especially that with each suggestion it tells you whether or not it is available. The hardest thing I had with the site was when there were a lot of suggestions I had a lot of trouble reading through all of them, kind of l
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by mendicant 15y ago
I agree. Especially concerning industry. You can have all things equal (Title, Education, experience, etc) and one industry will still pay way more than another. Besides, does it really make sense to be downtown and have your salary being c
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by mendicant 15y ago
The money wasn't the issue. The fact that there was literally not a single company signed up was the issue. Why would a top company pay for a service that -- as of that time -- no one was using. The fact of the matter is, it was two guys co
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by mendicant 15y ago
I'm in one now. It's nice, but I've sat in other chairs that are $250 that are also quite nice -- not as nice, but decently close. However, those $250 dollar chairs only seem to last me ~2 years. A side note that does make a difference: The
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by mendicant 15y ago
We gave free trials. One of the most important things for us was image. We work with oil and gas companies and getting a couple of Canada's top producers on board was paramount for us. We needed the "well if big guy X" is using it then mayb
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by mendicant 16y ago
Looks like a ton of fun.... but I don't follow football, cricket or tennis. If there was American Football, hockey and basketball I can think of at least 10 people I'd send this site to right now. Also, kudos to including a real user signup
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by mendicant 16y ago
I know at least a few of you thought it... what would happen if people were tricked into clicking that link and button. Kind of an a-hole thing to do. However, it does make me wonder how fast they might find a fix for it if it were to happe
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by mendicant 16y ago
The problem is that I want to help, but I can't. If they've added what other users have suggested, that anons or newbs can provide answers/edits that have to be approved by a more senior user that probably covers about 99% of the situations
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by mendicant 16y ago
I don't care to participate in SO often. I don't have high rep. I _can_ provide insight. every once in a while I find somewhere that I can provide some value or insight, whether via editing an answer with a url that's out of date, a comment

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