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I found myself trapped in a downspiraling conversation over the weekend - about interview questions. The engineers involved all represented different points of views and brought very good observations to the table. It mostly boiled down to:
Management...
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If I have to question new candidates, I like to know question where I turned it around on them and started to go into detail about when it would and wouldn't be a good question....
Answering questions that I have answered before.
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Hi stackoverflow family.
It is doubtless that unit testing is of great importance in software development. But i think it is practice and philosophy which is test first. And majority of developers want to use this philosophy, but they can't perform it...
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Whether it's run in isolation or together with other tests; it tests exactly one functional unit; it covers all possible scenarios of the tested functional ... .
Some characteristics of a good test:
its execution doesn't depend on context (or state) - i.e .
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Hi all, today is Wednesday, the 4th day of my work week.
Before I pose the question I must "lay some groundwork.
I work from Sunday through Thursday, that is 5 days.
I have the weekend of Friday and Saturday, that is 2 days.
For a total of 7 days, a standard...
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Then it's easier with the question....
To answer the question you would have to agree to the statement in the question, so I'm afraid I can't help you.
I would say it's more a philosophy than a physics or mathematics question.
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David Korn, a proponent of the Unix philosophy, chided Perl programmers a few years ago in a Slashdot interview for writing monolithic Perl scripts without making use of the Unix toolkit through pipes, redirection, etc. "Unix is not just an operating ...
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I think that the Unix philosophy started falling out of favor with the creation of Emacs.
Entry blog entry by Ryan Tomayko that aggrandized the UNIX philosophy and how it is embraced is ignoring the UNIX philosophy in general.
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For those of you who haven't seen the movie there seems to be a theme about the battle between logic and emotion between the robots and humans. The robots are logical yet too heartless for human interaction.
Early in the movie Will Smith and another character...
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The concept that one individual can also destroy the whole world is actully a totally stupid movie/TV/bad book theme that is contantly used over and over to try to add depth to some... .
Usually because saving the one can and should be done by an individual .
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How would you go about building a philosophy discussion website that would work with a large number of users?
EDIT: I am not trying to build a new forum, but rather trying to come up with a new tool, similar to how stack overflow has revolutionised asking...
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Section Aristotle -- Sub Section Aquinas based on Aristotle --- Specific question on an aspect.
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I recently had my first encounter with PHP (5) through a Drupal application for a client. There was certainly nothing difficult about the experience (documentation is good for instance), but I never had a moment where I thought, "that's really clever!...
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Unless you regard inconsistency as a design philosophy :)
PHP's emphasis is on getting documented....
There isn't really a design philosophy: It's a mix and mash of ideas to get a job done (obviously inherited philosophy behind it.
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Careers in philosophy? Hello does anyone here know someone with a career in philosophy and what sort of opportunities that exist out there? Share This
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You can friend who majored in philosophy....
There are no careers specifically related to philosophy.
The only person I know who majored in philosophy is an IT Team Lead/Trainer for a bank now.
To create your own opportunities and career.
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When counting the number of bottles of port you have at home (or in the wine cabinet or offsite etc), should you count miniature bottles (50ml) as "a bottle". Or should these only count as fraction (1/15th perhaps) of a bottle?
If only a fraction of "...
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Cockburn When I read the title about a question of philosophy for port collectors, I confess I had and nobody hears it break, did it really break?
This could be a trick question - if the glass container?
This could be a trick ....
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Should philosophy get more credit than it is currently given?
I have seen the argument at different places that philosophy is given too little credit. Massimo Pigliucci thinks Richard Dawkins gives too much credit to science, and too little to philosophy...
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Question for the "philosophy isn't useful anymore" crowd "postmodern" in your....
Science produces , one is actually using the scientific process .
But it goes to the question of assigning any degree of importance to philosophy.
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