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Re: 30 A-10 Thunderbolt II Jets Take Part In Elephant Walk Exercise At Moody AFB

lobrien — Wed, 24 May 2017 15:33:07 -0000

Please, please, _please_ post video of 30 Warthogs performing a "minimal interval takeoff."

Re: The 12 Best Old 97’s Songs :: Music :: Lists :: Paste

lobrien — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:35:07 -0000

Ironic that "Longer Than You've Been Alive" can't make it on the list since it's recent! But, honestly, "Most Messed Up" might be even stronger an album than "Too Far To Care" : Longer, Wheels Off, Get it On, Wasted, etc. (But, yeah, "Barrier Reef" FTW.)

Re: Swift: The joys of cascading lets

lobrien — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:00:24 -0000

I think you'll grow to love it. Scott Wlaschin has started describing this pattern as "railway-oriented programming" (http://fsharpforfunandprofi... and it can be generalized to apply to many situations. For instance, I am currently using an `Either` variation that allows functions to return "either" a `Success<T>` or a `Failure<U>` so the `Failure` is parameterized so that it contains a reason (perhaps a string, perhaps an errorcode, etc.). In the same way that you do not have to check every time for nil or errorcode in your code, my code *reads* like it's solely concerned with the `Success` track (what Eric Meijer calls "the happy path"), but in fact, at the end of the expression, if at one point something produced a `Failure`, it's been propagated along perfectly.

Re: Knowing.NET - Most Appreciated Rewards at Software Project Completion?

lobrien — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:52:09 -0000

"Green field" == "Blue sky" : I guess I'd define it as a project that
is unconstrained by legacy choices regarding technologies, techniques,
or codebase.

Re: Knowing.NET - Tag Soup: Worse than Ugly Perfectly Valid

lobrien — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:26:09 -0000

PAC requires good (maybe rare) discipline in maintaining the object
hierarchy. If you are not good at refactoring concerns "up" and "down"
into higher- and lower-level components, you end up with a great big
monolithic control.

Re: Knowing.NET - Incompetent American Programmers

lobrien — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:39:37 -0000

That's a powerful story and I regret that the field will lose you. My only issue is your statement that there was an explicit decision by "big players" at a specific point in time (8 years ago). While you're right to mark 2000 as a crucial year in outsourcing, I see the events of 2000-2003 (which is to say, the sudden erosion of freelance programming wages and a general plateau or fall-back in salaries) as being driven by the environment. The dot-com money pipeline had dried up and the Web had made the logistics of remote development much more practical.

If by "big players" you mean the invisible hand of capitalism, I suppose I agree with you.

Re: Knowing.NET - Incompetent American Programmers

lobrien — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:22:04 -0000

I agree with all your points. However, I _regret_ that the job of "take a spec and bang out working code" has gone the way of, say, shoe-making, leather-working, and other jobs where global competition has not just been a matter of economics but a loss of quality.

Re: Knowing.NET - Incompetent American Programmers

lobrien — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:58:04 -0000

In 26 years of professional programming, 19 years writing and speaking to audiences and corporate clients, and 7 years editing magazines with an aggregate monthly audience of 150,000, I've observed a lot of software developers, a lot of teams, and a lot of systems.

Re: Knowing.NET - The ACM is Using ColdFusion to Deliver the CACM Electronically

lobrien — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:14:02 -0000

That's the best laugh I've had in a while.

Re: Knowing.NET - I'm Looking to Hire Freelance Ruby Programmers

lobrien — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:30:02 -0000

Yes, I was referring to India, which is very often treated in discussions as if it's the only country in the world producing lower-cost developers.

Re: Knowing.NET - I'm Looking to Hire Freelance Ruby Programmers

lobrien — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:55:03 -0000

With the dollar imploding and American developers becoming relatively cheaper, I imagine that it's doubly-hard to be a freelancer in Europe.

Re: Knowing.NET - 30K application lines + 110K testing lines: Evidence of...?

lobrien — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:58:02 -0000

I've filtered no comments at all.

Re: Knowing.NET - Rolled Back To Older Das Blog...

lobrien — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:58:55 -0000

test comment made with old das blog

Re: Knowing.NET - Comments By Disqus... Let Me Know

lobrien — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:45:06 -0000

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Re: Knowing.NET - Comments Still Don't Work: Say Nothing More Substantial Than "You're So Gay!"

lobrien — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:59:42 -0000

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