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State of the Market
Functional and structured programming aren't replacements for OOP, they are paradigms that can be used in conjunction. OOP is not going anywhere soon, trust me.- pauldee
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State of the Market
Polymorphism and SOLID principles are part of OOP?- pauldee
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Self Employed
What exactly does he mean by 'profit'? Profit is what's left after you have paid all overheads, including salary, or what you pay corporation tax on? If you've been inside IR35 for the last year, you have no profit, because everything is technically salary? So you're entitled to nothing? -
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No Rights Employees
Thanks for posting this. I hadn't seen it before.- pauldee
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- Forum: IR35 Reform
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Freedom of speech or what?
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Client saying insurance is "Compulsary"
I'm thinking of getting some building work done soon. Recently in my neighbourhood, someone had some building work done which resulted in a section of the house collapsing. Customer's home insurance didn't cover negligent workmanship. Builder didn't have insurance. Customer chased builder to...- pauldee
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When I were a lad...
And they we're all 100% correct? Nothing needed modifying/changing? -
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When I were a lad...
Does this include fixes due to incorrectly communicated requirements? -
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When I were a lad...
Ee 'eck lad, in my day... You just sound like someone looking back through rose tinted spectacles at the good old days. The good old days were never as good as people remember. Things have changed, software development has got more complicated. The old processes don't cut it anymore. I'm no... -
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When I were a lad...
Good point about tests, I doubt the original 10000 lines per week in Cobol included tests, but today do you count the tests code lines in the count? They're not actually doing anything functionally productive but they do save a lot of work in the long run. Most decent developers write... -
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When I were a lad...
Fair point, functional languages especially seem to cram a lot on to one line, but takes some thinking about. Like I said, number of lines of code is a bad metric. If someone I worked for was daft enough to pay developers by number of lines of code, I would probably be churning out 10000 lines... -
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When I were a lad...
You're absolutely right, 10000 lines of code per week, back in the day. He didn't seem seem to pick me up on the every 3 seconds though, and apparently the teams he PMs are turning out 10 lines of code per week. I'd probably suggest where to start looking for that issue as I'm not seeing it... -
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When I were a lad...
I expect I would have been fine. You're comparing things that happened decades ago with modern coding practices. A line of code every 3 seconds is code churn however you look at it, and if you really believe that you couldn't have taken a minute or two to think things through and come up with... -
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When I were a lad...
That's one line of code every 3 seconds, non stop, for 8 hours. I can barely type that fast, so I struggle to think that you were stopping to think about whether you were applying the best approach. When picking up an agile ticket I can spend a good hour exploring the various possible...
