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  • Aaron Brady
    #1

    Re: Help with Iteration

    Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
    Aaron Brady <cast...pigmail .comwrote:
    >
    >>while 1:
    > calculate_stuff ( )
    > if stuff < 0.00005:
    > break
    >
    The thought police will come and get you.
    >
    You are doing things by "side effect"!
    You are using a global called "stuff"!
    You are relying on an implementation
    detail!
    >
    While their cudgels are bouncing off
    your skull, they will scream the above three
    lines into your swiftly swelling ears!
    My manager doesn't know a thing about programming, and in fact he
    failed the intro to critical thinking course at his college. He's
    scared of truth tables. He's bored and picks fights. He spent my bonus
    on a new VGA monitor for his second office. When I want to change my
    syntax colors, he has to get permission from his bartender. He is
    living proof that knowledge is not power. I'm impractically idealistic.
    I have abstractions to reuse code if aliens abduct us. (They are
    UFO_String and NonUFO_String.) I have macros for the number 1, because
    'one' is easier to read. Some of my code has an accessor
    method for the number 1, one(), just in case its value changes. We're
    going to fire each other. In other news, I don't really have one.

    If customers are stupid, should you sell stupid software?


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    • Asun Friere
      #2
      Re: Help with Iteration

      On Oct 20, 6:10 am, Aaron Brady <castiro...@gma il.comwrote:

      [snip]
      If customers are stupid, should you sell stupid software?
      That's a hypothetical question with which we need never concern
      ourselves. After all, by definition customers are not stupid, but
      "always right."

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        • Aaron Brady
          #3
          Re: Help with Iteration

          On Oct 19, 8:47 pm, Asun Friere <afri...@yahoo. co.ukwrote:
          On Oct 20, 6:10 am, Aaron Brady <castiro...@gma il.comwrote:
          >
          [snip]
          >
          If customers are stupid, should you sell stupid software?
          >
          That's a hypothetical question with which we need never concern
          ourselves.  After all, by definition customers are not stupid, but
          "always right."
          Only for the purposes of profit, and not even then necessarily. They
          can be wrong about what they would buy, wrong about what their fellow
          customers would buy, wrong about the product, wrong about the
          competition, etc.

          Regardless, I was asking about managers' priorities. I don't think
          we'd always agree on what constituted a good interface, for example,
          and he/she has final say over my job. I just don't want to reinvent
          the wheel all the time.

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