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Archive for October, 2016
Fred Brooks once famously wrote that there was no silver bullet for software development. Once a project and its tooling were agreed upon, software development took the time that it took. Brooks’s insight was that software developers spend their days more or less at the limits of their intellectual capacity, and no amount of tooling […]
So, Spectrum IEEE has a “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” article claiming that in 2016 tech layoffs have been nasty and that in 2017 it’s going to get even nastier. This is one of many articles on this theme, but it’s a little disheartening to see it in Spectrum. Worse, none of […]
The other day, I was reading through the course syllabus for a second-year AI class, as one does, when I noticed that the assignment for the sixth week was to turn in a working version of PacMan. Which is kind of weird, because the actual algorithm for PacMan involves more or less zero AI. It […]
05Oct
Post-mortem: What I learned writing git-linter
Posted by Elf Sternberg as programming, python, Today I Learned
My latest contribution to the world is Git Lint, a plug-in for git that allows you to pre-configure your linters and syntax checkers, and then run them all at once on only the things you’ve changed. About half of us still live in the command line, and I like being able to set-and-forget tools that […]
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