Whats the difference between an engineer, a scientist, and a mathematician? An engineer sees his equations as an approximation of reality. A scientist sees reality as an approximation of his equations. A mathematician just doesn’t care. There was discussion in a relatively recent Basement Coders podcast (ok, it went out mid May and […]
Avoid writing testcases that compare data structures that include infinite lazy sequences. It kinda does what you would expect… And yes, this is speaking from experience.
I was listening the latest Java Posse roundup recording on the “Future of Software” in which the topic of AI came up, and couldn’t help but chime in on a few things. The basic question being posed was, will computers eventually become smart enough to write their own software. Some argued no, […]
Like probably most software developers of my generation, I was taught from the very beginning of my education that Object Oriented Programming is the ideal programming paradigm for any significantly large application. C++ was the first language I learned way back in high school (well, not counting the TI-Basic language […]