problems only have one answer and often one strategy to get to the answer
Totally disagree
You’re thinking of equations, which only have one answer. There are often many possible ways to solve and tackle problems.
If you’ll permit an analogy, even though there’s “only one way” to use a hammer and nail, the overall problem of joining wood can be solved in a variety of ways.
IMO mathematical/logical/abstract thinking is critical for programming well, but IMO that’s different from “math degree” math.
Software as a means to an end can be used in almost every domain, so proficiency within that applicable domain is often either useful or necessary. That is to say, “math degree” math is likely needed for 3d rendering (certain games), scientific computation (incl machine learning), etc, but maybe not, otherwise. It depends on what software you’re trying to build.
To be more specific, general programming is definitely and specifically different from trig and calc. However, because math is also broad, “mathy” concepts like type theory, relational algebra, set theory are considered important for programming, even if only informally or indirectly so.
How does playing the game bring revenue? Ads?
Also, I would think that the business would be in a tougher situation if game popularity increased while tech workers weren’t around to maintain it
I don’t understand, if you’ve got easy to delete copy-pasted code, then delete it. It’ll be a nice and cathartic exercise.
But sounds like what you’re really talking about is code that isn’t easy to delete.
IMO folding to hide is about equivalent to moving all contents to another file/private function:
def bad_function(args):
return _hide_elsewhere(args)
i.e. does nothing. Real solution to pyramids of doom is to fix the code.
That’s changing the goal posts to “not static”
Sounds easy to simplify:
Use one of: constructor A(d), function a(d), or method d.a() to construct A’s.
B and C never change, so I invoke YAGNI and hardcode them in this one and only place, abstracting them away entirely.
No factories, no dependency injection frameworks.
IMO factory functions are totally fine – I hesitate to even give them a special name b/c functions that can return an object are not special.
However I think good use cases for Factory classes (and long-lived stateful instances of) are scarce, often being better served using other constructs.
But would you pay for it?
My employer’s paying for my access, and I only find it a bit useful here and there
Maybe my company gets a great discount or something, but if they would pay me the subscription cost to give up Copilot, I wouldn’t miss it
You can reference envs from the host in docker compose, so code it in instead of manually passing tribal knowledge in: https://stackoverflow.com/a/73826410
Simpler to keep everything in one compose file if you can, under a test service that doesn’t build unless explicitly named
Un-weird that env var and use the normal, boring feature of defining environment under your test service
I’ve often been able to alias drun='docker compose run --rm --build' and simplify down to:
drun test
Should be able to encode all those wayward args into docker-compose.yml or Dockerfile and only use vanilla docker commands – that’s the whole point of containerization
In the US? IMO only possible in exclusive environments similar to saunas at spas or membership-based clubs/gyms
One of the best tutorials on really “grokking” git concepts, and it’s online and interactive: https://learngitbranching.js.org
For programming, start with buildings things for yourself. Be practical, start small, and iterate, regardless if you consider the previous iteration was a success or failure. I’ve heard good things about https://automatetheboringstuff.com/ (in Python) in this regard.
Can address it by writing code that doesn’t depend much on indentation, which also makes code more linear and easier to follow.
Call their bluff!
If they’re SO concerned and want help signing bans for imaginary problems into law, there are plenty of real issues worth trading for in exchange.
E.g. from now on, schools nationwide are additionally funded to both prohibit litterboxes for students that identify as cats and provide free and healthy school lunches.
Idgi – is it saying that every game is either named “X” or “Y’s X”?
There’s the practical distinction between “everyone can do it with some dedicated intent” (so few actually bother) vs “everyone can do it on a whim”
Seems it depends on which elite/establishment, going by Wikipedia’s definition: “populism” is the political stance of “the people” against “the elite/establishment”
So by that defn, both of these examples qualify:
I’ve never seen these “express code/tests in natural language” ever work well. Your non-coders need lawyer-like skills to wield English very precisely, or it falls to coders that would be better off using code directly.