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Gates on "Stuff": March 2009

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A glimpse into the brains of the "less famous Gates". Tuesday, March 31, 2009. The Times they are 'a-changing. Well, we know that Newspaper are going to die, and we'll have to see about print media in general. In fact, my current guess is that the next decade of iPhones and Blackberries and Kindles and podcasts and audiobooks will signal a "paper reversal". In no way do I expect "paper" copies to go away, instead I expect them to slowly be limited to only specific, revered content. Of course, with such a...

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Dobbing Around: July 2010

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Thoughts on Software Development, Leadership, Presentations, Science and . Whatever Interests Me At Present. Every wonder how to get started with TDD? Recently, Brett Schuchert has started to put together a series of videos called C and TDD. Here is the first in the series called C and TDD, Getting Started. Follow the other links to see his follow-on videos. Links to this post. Relativity In Words Of Four Letters Or Less. This is an interesting writing on Relativity. Links to this post. New Methodology (...

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Jake Scruggs: April 2015

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Writes ruby/wears crazy shirts. Photo by Master Schweinsberg. Apr 30, 2015. Microservices vs David Heinemeier Hansson. Hearing that David Heinemeier Hansson. In his Rails Conf 2015 keynote was a bit disorienting as I was developing a microservice at the time. I leaned over to the other senior developer and said: “What’s his deal? 8221; I asked. 8220;Yep” he said. 8220;That and never remove a return key/value (pair), only add new ones until you can prove they are not used anymore” He added. 8221; “S...

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Jake Scruggs: August 2012

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Writes ruby/wears crazy shirts. Photo by Master Schweinsberg. Aug 8, 2012. Why I abandoned MetricFu. My last commit to MetricFu. Was March 2. of 2011. Since I am throwing in the towel and handing over leadership (perhaps to you), I thought I should explain why I've been such a terrible maintainer and why I'm walking away. 3) I'm not a consultant at the moment so the exploratory nature of MetricFu isn't very useful to me. I know where the bad parts of town are in my app. 5) Ultimately, creating software i...

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Jake Scruggs: February 2014

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Writes ruby/wears crazy shirts. Photo by Master Schweinsberg. Feb 27, 2014. SICP Wasn’t Written for You. The number of software luminaries who sing the praises of “ Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. 8221; (referred to as SICP) is such a long list that you might think only a crazy person would take issue with it. However, to ignore SICP’s problems and continue to blindly recommend it seems just as crazy. What then is my point about SICP? Simply that its explanations are overly terse and i...

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Jake Scruggs: September 2014

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Writes ruby/wears crazy shirts. Photo by Master Schweinsberg. Sep 16, 2014. Why Group Texts Must Die. Recently I re-tweeted this thought from Pete Holmes:. Top reasons for divorce. 1984: 1. financial problems. 2. religious differences. 2014: 1. constant inclusion in group texts. 2. no wifi. 8212; Pete Holmes (@peteholmes) September 14, 2014. This used to be fine back when text messages were either:. 8221; “Did you take a swim? 8221; “No, it’s too cold”, “where are you guys? Why not a mass email? Zealot, ...

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Jake Scruggs: Why Group Texts Must Die

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Writes ruby/wears crazy shirts. Photo by Master Schweinsberg. Sep 16, 2014. Why Group Texts Must Die. Recently I re-tweeted this thought from Pete Holmes:. Top reasons for divorce. 1984: 1. financial problems. 2. religious differences. 2014: 1. constant inclusion in group texts. 2. no wifi. 8212; Pete Holmes (@peteholmes) September 14, 2014. This used to be fine back when text messages were either:. 8221; “Did you take a swim? 8221; “No, it’s too cold”, “where are you guys? Why not a mass email? Zealot, ...

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Jake Scruggs: June 2014

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Writes ruby/wears crazy shirts. Photo by Master Schweinsberg. Jun 13, 2014. Software Apprenticeship Podcast Update. Episode 4 “Time to Exercise! 8221; is out right now! Search for it on your favorite podcast app or check out our free temp website here: http:/ softwareapprenticeship.libsyn.com. With 4 weeks under his belt (plus 9 weeks of Dev Bootcamp. Our apprentice, Jonathan Howden. Tune in and find out (spoiler: he’s doing well but it’s intense). Doing push-ups to break up the lethargy of coding. The v...

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Dobbing Around: Challenge: Random Number order of operation usage

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Thoughts on Software Development, Leadership, Presentations, Science and . Whatever Interests Me At Present. Challenge: Random Number order of operation usage. The two example codes do not give the same results on the same problem due to a difference in the order of random number usage. Can you tell why? 1: / Example 1. 2: unsigned accepted = 0;. 3: for(unsigned n=0; n nTests; n) {. 8: / Example 2. 9: unsigned accepted = 0;. 10: for(unsigned n=0; n nTests; n) {. New Mexico, United States. TDD: Start With...