Alpha list of refactorings. You have constructors on subclasses with mostly identical bodies.
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Why I Have Given Up on Coding Standards. Generalizing From One Example. Related to: The Psychological Unity of Humankind, Instrumental vs.
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Over the weekend, Viral Shah updated Julia’s implementation of randn() to give a 20% speed boost. Because we all wanted to test that this speed-up had not come at the expense of the validity of Julia’s RNG system, I spent some time this weekend trying to get tests up and running. I didn’t get far, but thankfully others chimed in and got things done. Testing an RNG is serious business. In total, we’ve considered using four different test suites: All of these suites can be easily used to test uniform random numbers over unsigned integers. Boxing Bots: An Overview. Introduction In early January, we were tasked with creating a unique, interactive experience for the SXSW Interactive launch party with Frog Design.
We bounced around many ideas, and finally settled on a project that Rick suggested during our first meeting: boxing robots controlled via Kinect. The theme of the opening party was Retro Gaming, so we figured creating a life size version of a classic tabletop boxing game mashed up with a "Real Steel"-inspired Kinect experience would be a perfect fit. Most importantly, since this was going to be the first big project of the new Coding4Fun team, we wanted to push ourselves to create an experience that needed each of us to bring our unique blend of hardware, software, and interaction magic to the table under an aggressively tight deadline.
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Yes, I said it. The obligatory TypeScript reaction post – codeface. It’s been known for some time that Anders Hejlsberg was doing something interesting in the JavaScript space, and when Anders is doing something interesting, it’s worth paying attention.
The Story of the New Microsoft.com — Rainypixels. A few weeks ago Microsoft silently launched a new home page. It was meant to be a temporary launch for the purposes of some preliminary testing. But as fate would have it, it became the talk of the Internet. Twitter was abuzz with opinions. Several blogs and online news sites, including The Verge, wrote about it. Leading Programmers Remember the Impact of <i>The C Programming Language</i>
More than thirty years ago, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie published the first edition of The C Programming Language, a concise yet definitive reference guide to the C language, initially developed by Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs in the early '70s. Dan Appleman: Kibitzing and Commentary » Blog Archive » Force.com is the next Visual Basic. Mo’ Pixels Mo’ Problems. Mobile devices are shipping with higher and higher PPI, and desktops and laptops are following the trend as well. A Bug Report is a Gift. Error codes vs exceptions: critical code vs typical code. IEEE log. IEEE and the log story IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is renowned as one of the world-leading organizations in standard development and the promotion of scientific and educational development within the Electrical, Electronics, Communications, Computer Engineering, Computer Science and related fields.
The organization has more than 415,000 members all over the world, almost half of them in the United States [1]. By the nature of the organization, IEEE members are highly specialised individuals, many of them working in critical industry, governmental and military projects. Furthermore, it would be reasonable to assume, that an organization publishing leading security-focused publications [2], would value the privacy of its members, and be proactive in keeping their data secure.
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