The Words You Wear

...words to verbally define who they are, what they know, and what they own. These words, these phrases, have value when everyone is in agreement as to what they mean, but used outside of your part of the organization, their value decreases, especially the closer you get to engineering. The engineering burden is that when it comes to the product, ...

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Published: 8 months ago (Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:43:35 PDT); 6238 bytes

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Slow, Difficult to Code, and Buggy

13:00 09.07.2009 Slow, Difficult to Code, and Buggy Back in 2006, Steve worked as a developer at mid-sized financial services firm. Like many organizations with central IT operations, departments within Steve’s company had the option to “buy” application development services from IT, or use an outside vendor for their business software needs, provided that the vendor’s software met ...

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Published: 8 months ago (Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:22:07 PDT); 8323 bytes

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Error'd: Planning for the Past

... "Weird," Matt write, "while I am an unregistered visitor, I'm pretty sure I'm not Internal Only. But I will say, I thought I had a higher Tookie value." Jeremy Fry received this from his mortgage provider. Chris Wade notes, "BricsCAD has a setting for every computer-related emotion." "When there's something straaaange in your render ...

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Published: 8 months ago (Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:22:05 PDT); 5289 bytes

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Color Color

... you were right. . . . . . . . In option (1), the compiler could decide that the best match is the static one and let you call it through the instance, ignoring the instance value. In option (2), the compiler could decide that the object version is the best match and ignore the static one, even though the argument match is better. But neither of those actually happens; the rules of...

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The void is invariant

... action is not even going to use the returned value, so it doesn’t matter one bit what it ... argument is removed from the stack and the return value is placed on the stack. Net, the stack ... specification says. Had the CLI specification said “the returned value of any function is passed back in a ‘...that returned anything. You can always just ignore the value in the register. But that’s not what the ...

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Published: 8 months, 2 weeks ago (Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:42:37 PDT); 6331 bytes

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Mmm, Curry

...trick. (We pass the managed address of the extension method to a constructor rather than passing the method info to the factory, but, basically its the same thing behind the scenes.) If you try this on an extension of a value type, you'll get an error . Sree has just posted an analysis of why this has to be a reference type . read more at Fabulous Adventures In Coding rss2lj

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CodeSOD: For The Love Of...

... ListViewReqingProvID.ListItems For Each LVAuthTypeItem In ListViewAuthType.ListItems For Each LVMembCondItem In ListViewMemberCondition.ListItems TempDe1.InsertRule _ AdvancedRule, "Advanced", Me.TextGroup, Me.CheckAutoApprove.Value, _ CDate(Me.DTPickerFromDt), CDate(Me.DTPickerToDt), ExpDate, _ LVSvcItem.Text, LVSvcItem.ListSubItems(1).Text, LVDiagItem.Text, _ LVDiagItem.ListSubItems(1)....

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A concrete illustration of practical running time vs big-O notation

...does or not, but I would not be surprised if System.String.GetHashCode caches the hash value in the string, which would mean that the cost of computing the hash is shared by... the object back into the tree in the recursive case. Most of the time, the value being stored is the same as the value that was already there. This dirties the cache line for no reason (forcing memory bandwidth to be wasted ...

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Published: 9 months ago (Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:42:07 PDT); 7989 bytes

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What does the optimize switch do?

... constructors. (Which typically happens if the static constructor set all the fields to their default value and the previous optimization eliminated all of them.) * We omit emitting a field for any ... quickly for things like controlling variables of switch statements, the condition in an “if” statement, the value being returned, and so on. In the non-optimized build these values are treated as ...

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Bug Psychology

... in Urdu , or the specification wasn’t quite right so we changed it or the code wasn’t adequately robust in the face of a buggy caller . I mean those bugs where you were asked to compute some value and you just plain get the result wrong for some valid inputs. Let me give you an example. The first bug I ever fixed at Microsoft as a full-time employee was one of those. To understand the ...

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Published: 9 months, 1 week ago (Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:22:43 PDT); 8109 bytes

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