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I agree that mocks are brittle and nearly useless. If you follow SOLID principles to the extreme, you'll find that your code is separated into logic code that is pure and easy to u…

ASP.NET MVC, because: - ASP.NET MVC makes it much easier to keep your domain logic decoupled from the framework. This is in contrast to frameworks like Django who expect you to use…

Have you mastered algebra and trig? If not, do it. Khan Academy is great for this. Watch the videos and do lots and lots of problems. In learning math, there is no substitute for w…

Or just let the market handle it. If people stop tipping, restaurants would be forced to increase wages, because nobody is going to work for $3/hour.

"because stereotyping necessarily subordinates individual identity to group identity" No it doesn't. Many stereotypes are useful when you have very little information about a perso…

Jammer's Reviews are pretty good for that. http://www.jammersreviews.com/st-tng/

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of HNs?

Also a missile's range and effectiveness depend upon both aircrafts' altitudes and velocities. Even if the predator could fire an AMRAAM, I don't think it would stand much of a cha…

Even in math "infinity" often means "unbounded". For example, in real analysis if we have a sequence x_n, we write lim x_n = ∞ to mean "given any real number alpha, we can find a n…

Haskell: Programmers aren't disciplined enough to to isolate side effects by themselves.

Those aren't data structures.

Lukeprog wrote a great and well researched blog post on being happy: http://lesswrong.com/lw/4su/how_to_be_happy/

This isn't pointless, as it allows you to easily post latex equations on any site that allows images.

Velleman's "How to Prove It" is a great book to learn how to do mathematics. http://www.amazon.com/How-Prove-It-Structured-Approach/dp/05...

Python has an array class too: http://docs.python.org/2/library/array.html

How do you like working in OR? Are there a lot of jobs in the field? I'm a math major and like programming, so it seems like it'd be an interesting career for me.

It's not just cheating, it's also the fact that when you have to use automated grading, it's much more difficult to create good tests. I hope in the future they offer you the optio…

> TDD promotes testing trivial methods Kent Beck might disagree: http://stackoverflow.com/a/153565

So far it looks great. A full screen button for the videos would be nice, though.

Hello Matt, I just want to say thanks for Lean Domain Search. A couple weeks ago I was struggling to think of a domain name for a small project of mine and then I saw your post. It…

The instructor is actually from University of Michigan, so it appears that this phenomenon is spreading.