These days, coding is a team game, not the sole preserve of unsocial geeks and nerds hacking in their mother's basements. Code needs to be clear and concise but also well commented / documented. You might understand the business rules for your application inside out (not specifically coding knowledge) but new coders might / will not.
Firstly, basic structural comments (i.e. Class name, author, basic purpose, date started,a list of properties and methods etc) should be written first, before coding. That shows there is a plan in place and it is not written "on the fly" using your first test programme that you got carried away with.
Secondly, code should be self commenting. ie obvious variable names (e.g. $fileCount rather than $fc or even $i). It should not be cryptic. There is no need for it and it just shows insecurity in job and/or skill level plus an inability to adapt. That kind of code is usually the first sign that someone is not a team player.
Thirdly comments are there to help others, not to say things like: "did you notice the cool way I wrote this?". The cool way to write something is not always the best. Yes they should be concise but, if your method is carrying out, say, a complex statistical function or applying some complex 3D matrix multiplications or is following some obscure business rule or something else in a field that a novice altering your code may not be completely familiar with, then more in depth comments will be needed. Even if is just a link to a wikipedia article on the multiplication of 3D matrices, or a location of the documentation and the paragraph with the business rule in question for example.
... unless you can show data that says otherwise. (Such as, "80% of famous flute players played flute in high school", or similar)...
I suspect that to be a famous flautist you would have to better than just good, and to be better than just good you probably have to have played from a young age (i.e. at school). Much the same as famous programmers have probably been building computers with spare parts since the age of 7 (slight exaggaration perhaps).
... can't name a single "famous flautist", male OR female...
James Gallway and Attarah Ben-Tovim. I haven't seen Mr. Gallway live but I have seen Ms. Ben-Tovim
Actually, with real horses, probably not, no. Unless you happen to find another "Red Rum" of course.
Like any other gambling site it would be run in favour of the owner but if people could get good enough they could make a bit of a profit. Of course so few people would get good enough at it that the site owner would make money.
I meant, they are not going to do anything to put themselves in danger which includes distracting you from difficult road conditions which they can see when they are in the car with you.
I remember a company here in Dundee ran a website that had virtual horse racing. You could buy a virtual horse, train it, buy virtual food, race against other horses and get monery back for winning. They even had a full time employee whose role was purely to commentate on the races.
It was so successful that a totally separate company set up in the US just to buy virtual horses and race them and they made a profit.
That was at least 4 years ago.
In danger of being a little off topic, but kind of thought it was interesting.
... Blind people and the colourblind need not apply, however...
Presumably, for any colour combination, each key is hit a certain number of times meaning that colour blind people would remember the number of times each button is pressed.
In fact, wouldn't that get over the problem of people being able to see the colour combo. just don't display the combo, but memorize the number of presses on each button.
... So now this is a hobby site? News for HOBBYISTS? OK...
I don't know, but you may be a professional electronic locksmith and for you this might be just a play-thing.
But for me, a programmer, this is interesting and a good introduction to building a small piece of hardware. I know shamefully little about electronics (well, what I can remeber from 1st year uni. physics)
The people in the lords have many centuries experience between them. Some of them are getting a bit old, granted, but their experience is across just about every field of knowledge.
The advantage of the lords is that they are not looking over their shoulder to see whether their next action is going to see them voted out at the next election. They can be much more confident about debating the issues rather than spouting popular rants.
At the risk of Godwin-ing this post, Hitler was originally elected by popular vote.
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The cost of going to a conservatory is prohibitive to most parents. They may be able to stretch to some private lessons.
Hey, I'm the exception, so I posted. This post is all about stereotypes isn't it AC?
These days, coding is a team game, not the sole preserve of unsocial geeks and nerds hacking in their mother's basements. Code needs to be clear and concise but also well commented / documented. You might understand the business rules for your application inside out (not specifically coding knowledge) but new coders might / will not.
Firstly, basic structural comments (i.e. Class name, author, basic purpose, date started,a list of properties and methods etc) should be written first, before coding. That shows there is a plan in place and it is not written "on the fly" using your first test programme that you got carried away with.
Secondly, code should be self commenting. ie obvious variable names (e.g. $fileCount rather than $fc or even $i). It should not be cryptic. There is no need for it and it just shows insecurity in job and/or skill level plus an inability to adapt. That kind of code is usually the first sign that someone is not a team player.
Thirdly comments are there to help others, not to say things like: "did you notice the cool way I wrote this?". The cool way to write something is not always the best. Yes they should be concise but, if your method is carrying out, say, a complex statistical function or applying some complex 3D matrix multiplications or is following some obscure business rule or something else in a field that a novice altering your code may not be completely familiar with, then more in depth comments will be needed. Even if is just a link to a wikipedia article on the multiplication of 3D matrices, or a location of the documentation and the paragraph with the business rule in question for example.
This should be true, male or female.
I suspect that to be a famous flautist you would have to better than just good, and to be better than just good you probably have to have played from a young age (i.e. at school). Much the same as famous programmers have probably been building computers with spare parts since the age of 7 (slight exaggaration perhaps).
James Gallway and Attarah Ben-Tovim. I haven't seen Mr. Gallway live but I have seen Ms. Ben-Tovim
Actually, with real horses, probably not, no. Unless you happen to find another "Red Rum" of course.
Like any other gambling site it would be run in favour of the owner but if people could get good enough they could make a bit of a profit. Of course so few people would get good enough at it that the site owner would make money.
OK, if it's a random order the colours change in then you are correct. My apologies.
If not then all your colour are belong to me!!! :-P
I meant, they are not going to do anything to put themselves in danger which includes distracting you from difficult road conditions which they can see when they are in the car with you.
Hope it's not 128-bit encryption then? ;-) You'd have to memorize a 32-digit hex number and convert to binary on the fly.
Would you still have only 3 chances to get it right? Would the queues go on for ages while they waited for people to get their code right?
Hey, maybe that's a new CAPTCHA to make sure you are a techy?
No they're not, according to the article:
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presumably in some fixed order.
This means that all you have to do is memorise the number of keypresses. In a more secure mode the lights wouldn't even have to be on.
I remember a company here in Dundee ran a website that had virtual horse racing. You could buy a virtual horse, train it, buy virtual food, race against other horses and get monery back for winning. They even had a full time employee whose role was purely to commentate on the races.
It was so successful that a totally separate company set up in the US just to buy virtual horses and race them and they made a profit.
That was at least 4 years ago.
In danger of being a little off topic, but kind of thought it was interesting.
That may take some time.
You have a 10 digit pin number?!?!?
Presumably, for any colour combination, each key is hit a certain number of times meaning that colour blind people would remember the number of times each button is pressed.
In fact, wouldn't that get over the problem of people being able to see the colour combo. just don't display the combo, but memorize the number of presses on each button.
I don't know, but you may be a professional electronic locksmith and for you this might be just a play-thing.
But for me, a programmer, this is interesting and a good introduction to building a small piece of hardware. I know shamefully little about electronics (well, what I can remeber from 1st year uni. physics)
Doesn't stop me being a nerd though.
Nice one! Although I expect that got changed back within minutes, if not seconds of you editing it.
If they are sitting right there with you then, if you have an accident, so do they.
The person in the veichle with you is aware of current road conditions etc ...
Ah yes, but they can more than afford to pay for it themselves, so it isn't going to matter who bought it for them.
IANAL BIAMTO! Cool, a new \. acronym.
Oh wait, this is \. there can't be many marrieds on here, never mind to lawers. :-)
No they weren't, they had no sanity checks by a second chamber.
By the way, Hitler was elected by the popular vote by spouting populist nonsense.
The people in the lords have many centuries experience between them. Some of them are getting a bit old, granted, but their experience is across just about every field of knowledge.
The advantage of the lords is that they are not looking over their shoulder to see whether their next action is going to see them voted out at the next election. They can be much more confident about debating the issues rather than spouting popular rants.
At the risk of Godwin-ing this post, Hitler was originally elected by popular vote.
Took that a long time ago. Both axis meet up.
My take is
- Centerist Politics - Capitalism - Fascism - Communism - Socialism - Centerist Politics -
Again, RTFP before replying.
RTFP before you reply