on Thu, Sep 30, 2021 by · 11 min reading time
What We Have Learned: Principles of Truth and Reconciliation The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
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2015
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Website: www.trc.ca
From pages 5 - 8 of “What We Have Learned: Principles of Truth and Reconciliation”
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Introduction For over a century, the central goals of Canada’s Aboriginal policy were to eliminate Aboriginal governments; ignore Aboriginal rights; terminate the Treaties; and, through a process of assimilation, cause Aboriginal peoples to cease to exist as distinct legal, social, cultural, religious, and racial entities in Canada.
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on Mon, Jun 21, 2021 by · 3 min reading time
IMPLICT MAGIC I learned to program with BASIC followed by C. These languages require syntax to tell the computer to do something.
Java, like many contemporary languages, has many implicit features that add convenience, but my impartive language roots make these features difficult to accept.
This diffculty results in a trouble with fluency.
For example, in Part 2, I mention implicit casting and the fact that it will not loose precision.
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on Sun, Mar 14, 2021 by · 4 min reading time
ENUMs Enumerations can help me create code that is readable and maintainable. However, in my last project I created a program design based on enums that proved to be too complex. This complexity increases the burden on maintenance in the aims of making the code maintainable. I need to find a balance between ease of reading and ease of updating.
I had not used Java’s Enums before. So, it took me some time to figure out how I wanted to design their use.
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