August 2007 - Karl Seguin

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Good Programmers Micro Optimize

Programming is too delicate a task to heavily rely on generalisms. Even at the relatively high level of programming we do, what works in one situation isn’t guaranteed to work in another. As developers we typically lack the imagination necessary to foresee even a fraction of how real users will use our...

Published Thu, Aug 9 2007 11:23 PM by karl
4 quotes + 1 paraphrase on failure

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm Winston Churchill My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure Abraham Lincoln There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from...

Published Fri, Aug 3 2007 10:11 AM by karl
Longest Type Name in .NET?

This is as useless as useless posts go but.... I happen to be on MSDN the other day (via Google) and landed on a page for a type that had a mighty long name. Naturally it made me wonder: what's the longest type name in .NET? Turns out that Rob Chartier looked at this back in early 2004 . But since...

Published Wed, Aug 1 2007 8:18 PM by karl