wenham

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by wenham 7y ago
The Mythical Man-Month is a classic, not just for CS.
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by wenham 7y ago
Yes, I aggree, a few driven people is probably enough. There is a really interesting book called 'in praise of slow' which has the idea as its main point
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by wenham 7y ago
I don't think the post is say that you CAN be the next Jeff Dean, Norvig, Linus, Stallman, Carmack, Wolfram etc. etc. by not coding outside of work. I think they are saying that it's OK not code outside of work, its OK not to be i
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by wenham 7y ago
I think this goes deeper than coding, we live in a world of “Give it you’re all”, but really the only thing we should be giving it all for is what makes us happy. Over the last 25 years of coding, I’ve always stuck to the 9-5 (ish), 5 days
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by wenham 8y ago
Sounds to me like keeping up with the Jones' but in a different way. "Oh you've been to 20 counties? Well I've done one, but covered it 20 times deeper" Does any of it really matter? You experience life for you, not
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by wenham 9y ago
For those that don't want to, and 'miss the point'. View source and go to the .JS file The text of the off-line site is about a third of the way down.
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by wenham 10y ago
Yes, readability is good, it makes any scripting easier. SQL is no exception. Hand in hand with this is calling things what they are and good comments for the 'why' rather than the 'what' parts of a statement.
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by wenham 10y ago
So I'm I right in thinking that there is a call to 'punish' some people due to their (albeit unpopular with many) political views? That doesn't seem very progressive or civilised...undemocratic even.
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by wenham 10y ago
I think I might be missing the point of the article. It just seemed to be a bit of a rant (not very pleasant one at that). Is the author saying that people that perform well are born that way, so shouldn't be rewarded?
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by wenham 11y ago
This boils down to: "Stop doing this, you're not enjoying it right!".
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by wenham 11y ago
Blank screen for most, try going to https://www.google.com/ideas/products/