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I develop code in our proprietry system using a scripting language that is unique to that system. Our director has allowed us to request enhancements to this language, which currently lacks user definable arrays. I need to write a concept brief on why...
Started by Mrgreen on
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Much easier to have a 100 DVD holder that sits neatly on your floor and holds 100 dvds in order than 100 individual DVDs scattered around your house where you last used them
Especially relevant when you need to move the collection from... .
I love analogies.
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I'm working on a library for Python that implements some persistent data structures (mainly as a learning exercise). However, I'm beginning to learn that explaining persistent data structures to people unfamiliar with them can be difficult. Can someone...
Started by Jason Baker on
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The cool step is explaining immutable tuples.
See above.
Of list2 with the first one set to 42 # List and List2 still hold their original values
Explaining is mutable, the individual numbers are not.
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In my group of friends/family, I'm usually the go-to guy for anything that people deem tech-related, from cell phones to the Internet. When people ask me for help, I try to explain things and empower them, but I don't always get the impression that they...
Started by dss_so on
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This....
Otherwise six months down the line you're acting as sysadmin for half a dozen friends/relatives and it starts becoming a real drag of your time .
I always tell my friends/relatives that I don't know the answer to the problem and sadly cannot help .
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How do I go about explaining that I am a "Web Application Developer" and not a "Web Site Designer" to prospective clients - without talking myself out of the project?!
Often I am approached to "design a web site" for someone where it turns out to be more...
Started by Mark Richman on
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Make a point in explaining how much value can.
What kinds of benefits you will be offering to them .
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Our team is working on old hardware and trying to justify buying new hardware to improve our productivity. Mainly to improve compile times, better use of Virtual Machines, running multiple instances of Visual Studio, etc. Our app today takes about 1 minute...
Started by mohlsen on
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Explain to them why you need to compile.
Experience what developers go through?
Just tossing out an idea.
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I have been trying to explain the difference between switch statements and pattern matching(F#) to a couple of people but I haven't really been able to explain it well..most of the time they just look at me and say "so why don't you just use if..then....
Started by Nathan W on
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As an aside: I find that the most useful thing ... .
It makes your code much simpler and clearer.
Perhaps you could draw an analogy with strings and regular expressions? You describe what you are looking for, and let the compiler figure out how for itself .
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What are some good examples that I can use to explain functional programming?
The audience would be people with little programming experience, or people who only have object-oriented experience.
Started by Brightside on
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The audience would be people with little programming experience,
Is it really possible to explain.
In this article I will explain the most widely used ideas from functional languages using examples.
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Information theory comes into play where ever encoding & decoding is present. For example: compression(multimedia), cryptography.
In Information Theory we encounter terms like "Entropy", "Self Information", "Mutual Information" and entire subject is based...
Started by claws on
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CiteSeerX.
Of "explaining away" in Bayes, starting page 293, in particular, sticks in mind.
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How would you explain "symbols" in a way that a novice programmer like myself would understand?
What are they? Are they some sort of mapping to functions?
I would like to learn more advanced debugging techniques and this term has been a roadblock for ...
Started by krebstar on
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If I am debugging....
Try this: Debug Symbols
A possibly simpler MSVC++ 6 answer for a novice than the wikipedia article is as follows;
Symbols are links between an executable file being debugged and it's source, stored in a .PDB (symbolic information) file .
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I've been trying to understand the AdaBoost algorithm without much success. I'm struggling with understanding the Viola Jones paper on Face Detection as an example.
Can you explain AdaBoost in laymen's terms and present good examples of when it's used...
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For face recognition a classifiers is typically just a rectangle of pixels that has a certain average color value and a relative size .
AdaBoost uses a number of training sample images (such as faces) to pick a number of good 'features'/'classifiers' .
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