I am slowly slogging through the coding of my survey data.  It is TEDIOUS in the extreme (though… let me plug the Coding Analysis Toolkit from QDAP, which is a lovely web-based tool for coding data) but it is still a very time-consuming process (at best, 4 hours to code about 900 items). One of the [...]

Lawrence Lessig - Coding Against Corruption - Via IT Conversations: Government corruption affects all aspects of society. At the 2008 O'Reilly ETech Conference, Lawrence Lessig discusses government corruption, especially in the United States Congress. What does government get right, wrong, and where does dependence compromise effective government? Also, Lessig announces a new project designed to ...

... 80-character line length limit, which made coding in a text terminal easy, and tabs equivalent to ... avoid Java :) ). It dawned on me after a while that the reason I didn't like anonymous classes was that my coding style made them a real pain in the backside to ... sentences, discussing only the present. In summary, pick a coding style that doesn't punish nesting, unless you want to make the language ' ...

... could code. One company I worked for started giving coding questions after I had started, but I never had to take it (I probably would have mucked up a few questions).This is a difficult question ... -image field. Yet it took about 2 minutes looking at how someone else did it for me to be able to replicate it. Some coding tests, from what I've seen, fail to take into account that people are capable of ...

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