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What would Feynman do? – Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
One of the most entertaining software development articles I’ve read in a long time.
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No one I know at Microsoft asks those godawful "lateral-thinking puzzle" interview questions anymore. Maybe someone still does, I don’t know. But rumour has it that a lot of companies are still following the Microsoft lead from the 1990s in their interviews. In that tradition, I present a sequel to Keith Michaels’ 2003 exercise in counterfactual reasoning. Once more, we dare to ask the question "how well would the late Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Dr. Richard P. Feynman do in a technical interview at a software company?"
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For C programmers that hate C++
This is completely true, and I’ve considered writing an article like this myself. There’s no question that C++ has some major warts and gotchas. But it’s surprising how many C programmers don’t realize that even simply compiling your C-style code under a C++ compiler will catch more mistakes. And using just a small subset of C++ features can substantially DRY up a C codebase.
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Finally, compared to C, C++ is a lot more safe – that is, it catches more errors at compile-time.
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Faster process spawning for Ruby.
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The posix-spawn library aims to implement a subset of the Ruby 1.9
Process::spawn
interface in a way that takes advantage of fast process spawning interfaces whenavailable and provides sane fallbacks on systems that do not.
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Paradigms, They’re All About Constraints. – Uncle Bob’s Blog
Uncle Bob on how every revolutionary paradigm in software engineering has been based on increased constraints, not increased power.
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