I have found Extreme Programming techniques to be very useful. I do much less debugging now, because I write unit tests as (or even before!) I write the methods. I use the JUnit framework for all the Java code that I develop.
I'm sure that debugging technology can and should be improved, but I think that better development methodology reduces the need for debugging.
People who use Morse code definately know it by the sound - letters and words are recognized as units, much in the same way that people recognize whole words when they read.
Recently I overheard someone's pager, and heard the sounds "dididit dahdah dididit" which is "SMS" in Morse code. I don't know what kind of pager it was, but evidently the person had received an SMS (Short Message Service) text message, and the pager identified it with Morse.
In most cases it appears that authors have emailed text to webmasters, who have put the text on the sites without reading (and questioning) it.
The internet is full of wonderful stuff:)
Try doing a search on "Lorm ipsum" and you'll find a bunch of sites which contain psuedo-Latin filler text. Traditionally that text is used as a place holder since the 1500's. And the search engines find it:)
A big problem today is that many journalists do not practice one of the basic tenets of journalism, namely, finding and checking the primary sources of the information. Often news organizations simply reproduce what other news organizations have published.
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I have found Extreme Programming techniques to be very useful. I do much less debugging now, because I write unit tests as (or even before!) I write the methods. I use the JUnit framework for all the Java code that I develop.
I'm sure that debugging technology can and should be improved, but I think that better development methodology reduces the need for debugging.
People who use Morse code definately know it by the sound - letters and words are recognized as units, much in the same way that people recognize whole words when they read.
Recently I overheard someone's pager, and heard the sounds "dididit dahdah dididit" which is "SMS" in Morse code. I don't know what kind of pager it was, but evidently the person had received an SMS (Short Message Service) text message, and the pager identified it with Morse.
In most cases it appears that authors have emailed text to webmasters, who have put the text on the sites without reading (and questioning) it. The internet is full of wonderful stuff :)
Try doing a search on "Lorm ipsum" and you'll find a bunch of sites which contain psuedo-Latin filler text. Traditionally that text is used as a place holder since the 1500's. And the search engines find it :)
A big problem today is that many journalists do not practice one of the basic tenets of journalism, namely, finding and checking the primary sources of the information. Often news organizations simply reproduce what other news organizations have published.