Random Thoughts about Programming, Life, Universe and Everything

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Introduction

By Vladas. Monday, 5. March 2007, 12:33:46

This group is an attempt to create a phrase-book about Programming, but not only. Feel free to post your interesting thoughts.

And please note: If not mentioned otherwise - it is assumed that the phrase belongs to the publisher.

Let's start...

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The Purpose of OOP

By Vladas. Saturday, 3. October 2009, 19:41:50

Programming, Absurd

Object Oriented Programming is often needed to mimic well written good program.

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Well Parameterized Programs

By Vladas. Friday, 2. October 2009, 20:25:37

Programming, Absurd

In well-parameterized programs 90% of parameters are usually used only once...

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Probability of Unknown

By Vladas. Sunday, 13. September 2009, 09:23:32

Life, Absurd, Universe

The probability of Unknown is always 50 / 50.

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Doers and Teachers

By Vladas. Saturday, 15. August 2009, 18:30:14

Programming, Life

Those who can't do, teach.
Those who can do, can't teach.

(c) Unknown

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Economy basics

By Vladas. Friday, 31. July 2009, 19:11:47

Absurd

2 x 2 = 5 (VAT included)

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Оговорка по Фрейду

By Vladas. Tuesday, 28. July 2009, 19:19:54

Absurd

Как Вы знаете, по Конституции, в России церковь отделена от религии...

(Корреспондент НТВ для передачи "Сегодня" 25 июля 2009 г.)

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Barbarians

By Vladas. Saturday, 13. June 2009, 09:14:07

Universe, Absurd, Life

Humans always are barbarians - from further generations' point of view.

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Gang Programming

By Vladas. Tuesday, 26. May 2009, 05:28:28

style, Programming, Design, Absurd

And the question is, "do I want to turn a 2 KLOC app into a properly crafted 10 KLOC app with proper OO implementation?" Nope. But if I was in a "gang programming" environment, I would almost *have to*.

(c) Justin James at TechRepublic.com

(KLOC - kilo lines of code)

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English Rain

By Vladas. Sunday, 17. May 2009, 21:24:56

Life, Universe

I've seen a lot of rain in my life, but not so much in the same time...

(From conversation in Plymouth)

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Read the Code!

By Vladas. Sunday, 17. May 2009, 21:06:34

style, Programming

I do read other's code a lot, especially my own....

Tony Hopkinson - TechRepublic user

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Theory vs. Practice

By Vladas. Friday, 17. April 2009, 15:19:49

Programming

[LT]
Teorija visada eina koja kojon su Praktika, pokol Praktika nepakiš jai kojos.

[RU]
Теория всегда идет нога в ногу с Практикой, до тех пор пока Практика не подставит ей ногу.

[EN]
Theory is always running afoot with Practice ..., until Practice kicking it off the way.

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PERL one-liners

By Vladas. Thursday, 16. April 2009, 18:30:23

Programming, Absurd

I love PERL one-liners! Until those must be corrected at support time.

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Homo Sapiens

By Vladas. Thursday, 9. April 2009, 16:07:47

Absurd

Homo Sapiens - это такая человекоподобная раса, которая пытается достичь всеобщего благоденствия при помощи денег и войн.

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Programmer's Hell

By Vladas. Wednesday, 19. November 2008, 22:41:17

Programming

Programmer's hell is in that you cannot purely comprehend other's programming products. You either see all opponent's bad programming practice details, or treat all good programming practices as a challenge for competition.

(Paraphrase of Unknown(c) regarding story writers)

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That is The Question!

By Vladas. Thursday, 16. October 2008, 21:52:28

Life, Absurd

Is it fair to play fair in unfair game?

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What is Recursion?

By Vladas. Wednesday, 17. September 2008, 20:27:32

Life

Hofstadter's Law:

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

Hofstadter (probably)

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Misconcepted Singleton

By Vladas. Wednesday, 17. September 2008, 20:08:28

Programming

Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless that is used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.

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Don't Do Eval

By Vladas. Thursday, 14. August 2008, 07:58:34

Programming

Imagine a case when world wouldn't be so much concerned of systems security. How much more robust and dynamic programming systems would be! How much less time would be needed to develop and implement them!

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