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ducktype | 14 years ago | on: Signs that you are a bad programmer

> "Bulldozer code" that gives the appearance of refactoring by breaking out chunks into subroutines, but that are impossible to reuse in another context (very high cohesion)

I feel like this might give people the wrong idea. Surely some amount of cohesion is desirable. Also, I'm not quite sure how one "gives the appearance of refactoring" without actually refactoring. Whether it's useful or not may enter into it, but I would usually consider the breaking out of chunks into subroutines refactoring.

ducktype | 14 years ago | on: MS-DOS is 30 years old today

I always had the same experience getting TIE Fighter to run. Mostly it was a combination of LH's and DOS=HIGH,UMB which did the trick.

That and a trial and error process of reordering CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT entries along with interactive boot which always reminded me of that scene from Apollo 13 when they are trying to determine the powerup sequence for the command module.

ducktype | 14 years ago | on: ITerm2 1.0 Released

Wow, looks like they've fixed most of the problems I had with it in the past. The one thing I still miss from yakuake is to be able to select split-panes by numeric hotkey. Seems like you can only do it for separate tabs and windows, but my preferred workspace is a 2x2 visor window.

ducktype | 15 years ago | on: How My School and District Failed its Students

Probation/parole/bail jumpers

House arrest

Prison education is pretty common

Granted, not everyone can leave jail. But take a boarding school and a minimum security prison and you're getting pretty close to the same thing.

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