Posts tagged: programming
3 posts
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Detection by Side Effect
A Vim function that checks for a feature ends up telling you the OS, because behavior is what's exposed and identity usually isn't.
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One Level Down
Some problems resist because you're solving them at the wrong level. The fix is to step back and build the abstraction that makes the problem tractable.
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The Lemma
Naming an intermediate abstraction is where the cognitive work of a solution happens. The code that follows is assembly.