It might be the shortest time *now* but later when you have to add other functionality on top of your hack then you are already on the slippery slope to a ball of spaghetti - and over time your code will take longer and longer to bugfix and add functionality to. Rushing through software dev is usually a false economy.
I work with a couple of people who will code some functionality as quickly as they can so they can brag about how it only took them a couple of hours. Over the next weeks and months you find that it has bugs, misses functionality, and is a bitch to extend. At the other end of the scale might be someone who takes a couple of days but you never have to revisit that code and when you need to alter it or add something you find it reasonably easy to do.
It shouldn't - refactoring is making the internal structure better without changing the external API.
There are of course different levels of "internal" and if the only client of a class is another class under your control then it is fine to refactor methods that are involved in it's contract.
All this is with the rider that you need unit tests to ensure the code continues to meet it's contract.
Dude, I have read a few comments of yours in this thread and it is clear that you don't really have any idea of the benefits of unit tests. Testing isn't something that should be done at the end with your fingers crossed. Defects cost more to fix the longer you wait to have them exposed.
Do you know what "linked to" means. It means they have no evidence. These days in the UK you can be arrested (sometimes without charge or legal representation) for merely having tourist maps and being brown.
When they shot charles de menezes the police initially said it was "linked to the ongoing 7/7 investigation", it is a standard bullshit phrase used to make it seem like they actually have rhyme or reason for doing things like that or noisily arresting hundreds of people a year in well publicised raids and then quietly releasing them later.
Don't worry i'm sure Condaleeza Rice will get to it, just after she has finished touring the world trying to warn everyone how dangerous luminous watch hands made by Iran are.
They were pulling the branches off it. I have seen children literally destroy trees, it is no more acceptable than any other form of vandalism no matter how precious these parents think their children are. Sure people can claim they were breaking off "loose" branches, or call them "twigs" to make it sound like the police were overreacting but they probably weren't.
The UK is in a bad way at the moment - kids of exactly this age hang around in gangs and cause all kinds of trouble knowing that adults can't stop them and the police will usually do nothing as well.
If adults were still allowed to give unruly kids a clip round the ear this wouldnt even be necessary.
The reason this is different from crack, heroin, etc, is that a junkie can smoke $10 of crack in 1 minute, but $10 of speed can get you high for a day or so.
That makes no sense. Needing to get $10 to buy drugs is hardly going to cause a crime spree or we would have lots of people mugging people to buy cigarettes.
Actually, no. You look at the test cases, they tell you exactly what the subsystem should be doing.
No, then instead of having to parse the implementation code you have to parse the test code to figure out what the hell is going on, and since the same person who wrote the code will have written the tests then it will be equally opaque.
I have been in the position many times of puzzling over someones totally uncommented implementation and tests.
Sure, it may be insensitive, but it's just good business sense. Or are you a socialist?
If only it were possible to run a business and be a "socialist" at the same time. Business should be productive members of society too, after all that is what we all, collectively, are.
Don't forget Iraq, they have loads of nukes and chemical weapons - Colin Powell showed me (and the UN) the pictures! And they can attack us in 45 minutes (Tony blair let me in on that information) - yes even though they have been knocked back into the stone age by sanctions and Desert Storm they are still a GREAT THREAT!!!!11
Oh sorry its Iran that you right wing morons are banging on about this time isn't it, my mistake.
You sound clueless tbh, like all people who complain that making valid websites is "tooo haaaaaard!!!". If you need a validator to check bulleted lists and can't write js without errors then you are in the wrong job. Or you are the office gopher who just happens to also like playing with frontpage.
Otherwise, theres no real reason for Hu to come to the US,
Apparently Hu's PC has been running slow and he keeps getting adverts popping up on his screen, he's heard that Bill is "good with computers" and thought he might be able to fix it.
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It might be the shortest time *now* but later when you have to add other functionality on top of your hack then you are already on the slippery slope to a ball of spaghetti - and over time your code will take longer and longer to bugfix and add functionality to. Rushing through software dev is usually a false economy.
I work with a couple of people who will code some functionality as quickly as they can so they can brag about how it only took them a couple of hours. Over the next weeks and months you find that it has bugs, misses functionality, and is a bitch to extend. At the other end of the scale might be someone who takes a couple of days but you never have to revisit that code and when you need to alter it or add something you find it reasonably easy to do.
It shouldn't - refactoring is making the internal structure better without changing the external API.
There are of course different levels of "internal" and if the only client of a class is another class under your control then it is fine to refactor methods that are involved in it's contract.
All this is with the rider that you need unit tests to ensure the code continues to meet it's contract.
Sebastian's mother probably feeds him Supermarket ready meals and drives him round in a cancer causing SUV anyway.
Dude, I have read a few comments of yours in this thread and it is clear that you don't really have any idea of the benefits of unit tests. Testing isn't something that should be done at the end with your fingers crossed. Defects cost more to fix the longer you wait to have them exposed.
Its ok, they are only arresting people who are linked to Kevin Bacon.
Do you know what "linked to" means. It means they have no evidence. These days in the UK you can be arrested (sometimes without charge or legal representation) for merely having tourist maps and being brown.
When they shot charles de menezes the police initially said it was "linked to the ongoing 7/7 investigation", it is a standard bullshit phrase used to make it seem like they actually have rhyme or reason for doing things like that or noisily arresting hundreds of people a year in well publicised raids and then quietly releasing them later.
One comes with 1gb by default - You have a different definition of "standard" to me.
Don't worry i'm sure Condaleeza Rice will get to it, just after she has finished touring the world trying to warn everyone how dangerous luminous watch hands made by Iran are.
You can buy a NAS box for a quarter of the price of one of these (not including drive of course).
He will get laws passed that make fantastic profits for the companies he lobbies for.
US politics 101
"toolbar buttons now glow when you hover over them."
FINALLY!
They were pulling the branches off it. I have seen children literally destroy trees, it is no more acceptable than any other form of vandalism no matter how precious these parents think their children are. Sure people can claim they were breaking off "loose" branches, or call them "twigs" to make it sound like the police were overreacting but they probably weren't.
The UK is in a bad way at the moment - kids of exactly this age hang around in gangs and cause all kinds of trouble knowing that adults can't stop them and the police will usually do nothing as well.
If adults were still allowed to give unruly kids a clip round the ear this wouldnt even be necessary.
That makes no sense. Needing to get $10 to buy drugs is hardly going to cause a crime spree or we would have lots of people mugging people to buy cigarettes.
That works great thanks, my gf has been bitching about that forever.
I used to use Opera and they made the interface unintuitive and like you say nothing like apps normally behave.
While I am here, Is there anyway to have your bookmarks open without some icon bar down the left hand side of it wasting space?
No, then instead of having to parse the implementation code you have to parse the test code to figure out what the hell is going on, and since the same person who wrote the code will have written the tests then it will be equally opaque.
I have been in the position many times of puzzling over someones totally uncommented implementation and tests.
Have you tried using Xplanner instead of a spreadsheet? It works very well.
Unfortunately the dumber you are the more kids you have, all the dumb people I know have multiple kids, all the smart successful ones have none.
If it was reversed then civilization would have been much further ahead by now.
A lot of OS/geeks liking macs these days.
If only it were possible to run a business and be a "socialist" at the same time. Business should be productive members of society too, after all that is what we all, collectively, are.
Don't forget Iraq, they have loads of nukes and chemical weapons - Colin Powell showed me (and the UN) the pictures! And they can attack us in 45 minutes (Tony blair let me in on that information) - yes even though they have been knocked back into the stone age by sanctions and Desert Storm they are still a GREAT THREAT!!!!11
Oh sorry its Iran that you right wing morons are banging on about this time isn't it, my mistake.
They are really big triangles now :-)
oh and how long has this strange page been here: http://vendors.slashdot.org/
You sound clueless tbh, like all people who complain that making valid websites is "tooo haaaaaard!!!". If you need a validator to check bulleted lists and can't write js without errors then you are in the wrong job. Or you are the office gopher who just happens to also like playing with frontpage.
Apparently Hu's PC has been running slow and he keeps getting adverts popping up on his screen, he's heard that Bill is "good with computers" and thought he might be able to fix it.
Did you miss biology classes at school? Look up selection, mutation etc...