I ski and board. In my opinion boarding was the really popular thing to start a while back. That meant all the newbies that didn't know slope etiquette were doing it. I think that's why it got the bad reputation.
Skiing seems to be back to being cool again so things have levelled out a bit. The rivalry is still talked about though so it persists. There also probably a misunderstanding of what the "other" can see while moving.
The method to choose a static IP is pretty iffy too. "add 20 to your laptop's IP".
I suppose all of this will work (and likely generate fewer support calls). I really hope the person that wrote this article wasn't involved in setting up their firewall!
I'd argue that while they can't "do" their own testing, developers should be writing Unit tests that prevent their code from being broken in future. They should also be writing tests that exercise their code so they find corner cases that were not obvious when coding.
The problem is it's difficult to define what that is (and particularly to teach a junior Dev what to do).
I didn't like Inversions the first time I read it either but re-read all the Culture books, in order, after Banks died and enjoyed that. I think I was expecting it to be very Culture-y and was disappointed it wasn't. On a reread my expectations were different and it was just a very enjoyable story.
I'd also suggest avoiding Excession until you've become familiar with the Minds. It's my favourite book, I think, but you lose a lot without having a little context.
I would argue that Javascript is a hybrid of pass by reference because of the case below though.
function someFunc(v) {
v.myvar = 456;
v = someOtherObject;
}
var foo = someObject;
foo.myvar = 123;
someFunc(foo);
// foo still refers to someObject
// foo.myvar is 456
Banning our team from passing objects around except in specific, discussed, cases got rid of lots of difficult to track down bugs.
You'd be wrong. Again "Pass by reference" is "well defined" in computer languages.
Passing a reference to an object is not "pass by reference". Your example works the same in Java and C# and probably Swift and many other languages. But you aren't "passing by reference". "pass by reference" specifically means passing a reference to the variable, not the variable's value. Javascript always passes the value of the variable, it has no ability to pass a variable by reference.
Skiing seems to be back to being cool again so things have levelled out a bit. The rivalry is still talked about though so it persists. There also probably a misunderstanding of what the "other" can see while moving.