Nowhere To Run: 55 – Magic Number

Posted in Nowhere To Run with tags , , , on August 21, 2010 by moffdub

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Helltime for August 16

Posted in Helltime with tags on August 16, 2010 by moffdub

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  • In my once-pined-after industry of game development, GameDev.net contributor Andrey Karpov offers an epic post about real-life 64-bit problems in C code. I could only get through the first 20 examples before my VM-shielded brain started shutting down.
  • The site DeveloperArt.com complains that programmers are hired as if they were lying children, and its author seems to resent this treatment to the point of refusing a job offer. Sorry to break this to you, author, but FizzBuzz is reality. It’s our own damn fault that employers screen us as if our industry was full of fools, because it is. To wit:
  • Shut up and write your unit tests, says Robert Diana, JavaLobby poster on DZone. This post is a timely find, as a fellow developer-turned-evangelist at my place of employment expressed her bewilderment that one of the teams she is advising is “melting down” at the thought of writing unit tests. Call it the Agile version of “shut up and code”.
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Nowhere To Run: Best Of

Posted in Nowhere To Run with tags , , on August 14, 2010 by moffdub

This week’s posting of Nowhere To Run will not occur this week.

Announcer: This is the best of Nowhere To Run. Today’s comic was originally posted on July 12, 2009. Please do not call in.

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