Rethinking Software Development.
As frustrating as it can be to work with the uninspired, sloppy developer, the contrary – the inspired-yet-misguided one – is several magnitudes worse. A few bugs and painful-to-maintain code pale in comparison to the disastrous results an improperly motivated developer can deliver.
Everything from the platform (“let’s try out Ruby!”) to the architecture [...]
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Programming Sucks! Or At Least, It Ought To – The Daily WTF
Posted in hacking on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
complicated (sorry “elegant”) code
Posted in hacking on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The section about programmers creating complicated (sorry “elegant”) code just to keep them interested in a project reminds me of one of the best lessons I learned in Software U.
It was in the Advanced Fortran class one evening, and our teacher, George, enters the room. His 35 students await the wisdom he has for us. [...]
Programming Sucks! Or At Least, It Ought To – The Daily WTF
Posted in hacking on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
hilarious quote: (btw a great article for every software engineer working in the industry)
A UI generated from the database is just as bad as the database that’s generated from the UI.
via Programming Sucks! Or At Least, It Ought To – The Daily WTF.
The Most Important Algorithms
Posted in hacking on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hit upon a very interesting page today: top CS algorithms according to Christoph Koutschan. The list is fascinating and useful, especially for CS guys ’cause they might wanna make sure they know all.
http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/people/ckoutsch/stuff/e_algorithms.html
Unix: Displaying only files not directories
Posted in hacking, unix on July 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I did not find a straight forward way to do it.
Here is my hack:
ls -1 -dp item* | grep -v “/”
