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Why Your Life Purpose is Bullshit (17)
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Quantity Always Trumps Quality (95)
on Coding Horror (2770) permalinkNathan Bowers pointed me to this five year old Cool Tools entry on the book Art & Fear. Although I am not at all ready to call software development "art" -- perhaps "craft" would be more appropriate, or "engineering" if you're feeling generous -- the parallels between some of the advice offered here and my experience writing software are profound. The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two ...Shared by [ebarrera] (33) aconbere (33) Alan (88) Alex (18) Alex (15) AlexandrosM (78) alice (27) alleycat (25) Anand (13) Andrés David (53) AndyF (23) Antonio (13) Arik (30) Arvind (41) Baldo (33) benexia (14) Brent (136) bryantsai (63) C.M (29) Cade (209) Caleb (47) Carl Fyffe (37) Christoph Thelen (15) cisellis (130) clementi (92) Cocoy (246) Colin Charles (71) Compuwizard123 (229) Danny Navarro (29) Dave (17) Dmitry Lomov (21) Dylan Bennett (34) easyon (30) Evgeni L. / Reepicheep (74) Forrest (75) Frank Sons (46) g9yuayon (65) Gangles (64) Guillermo Esteves (36) Isaac (37) Iulian (26) James (37) Jannik (29) Jeff (161) Jeffrey (32) Jeremy (385) Joe (286) Johan (45) John Higley (19) Jon Winstanley (41) Jonathan Christopher (5) jonezy (113) jpwain (23) jvn (15) Kartik Agaram (34) Keith (14) Kenneth LeFebvre (9) Khanh Dang (7) Mark (89) Martin (25) Mike (114) Morton Fox (314) naseer (18) Pedro Lozano (2) Peter Cooper (11) peysal (27) Phillie Casablanca (52) possible248 (66) Rick Turoczy (354) Robbie (45) Roberto (111) Ron (43) Ryan S (71) S Anand (33) sarah (917) Saul (59) saurabh (58) Scott (21) Scott (58) shivanand (20) Simon (22) skabaru (48) smuggyuk (13) stefan (21) Stephen (29) Ted (42) Tim Saylor (18) TiTi (399) Toby (27) Trey (66) vevck (47) wmdmark (39) xeal (58) xrx (131) Zane Shelby (22)Explore read seven notes
- alice said: Jeff Atwood gets it right again.
- Zane Shelby said: Anyone who is familiar with the NewMUD project should see the wisdom in this article.
- Simon said: I've paraphrased what Jeff is saying here. It is really quite profound and extends way beyond software developer or ceramics. It permeates every aspect of our life. Don't know how play the guitar? Are you going to read about it, or pick up a guitar and start practicing? Don't know how to ride a motorcycle? You can read the manual, or take one out for a spin (carefully). You did sell enough stuff? You can study more about the product and the region and the demographics, or you can knock on another door or make another phone call.In general, life is about refinement... about constantly refining who we are and what we do. Someone said to me that you can't steer a parked car. So true... the car must be moving before you can get it going in the right direction.God does the same thing with us. He asks us to make disciples as we go into the world. We may be afraid and feel unprepared, but in the act of doing, He grows us and trains us and we become more able all the time.
- Carl Fyffe said: Amazing. I have witnessed this in many different aspects of life.
- AlexandrosM said: an amazing idea. an a-ha moment if you will.
- smuggyuk said: And this is why I spend my evenings hacking away on little code projects ;0)
- Forrest said: though I've been disappointed with codinghorror of late, this was a really good entry
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Code Reviews are not just about the code (8)
on Ayende @ Rahien (268) permalinkUsually when I am doing a code review, I ask not just access to the code, but to the source control repository as well. There are quite a lot that you can learn from the source control of a project. Here is something that is both good and bad. It is bad because we have no checkin comments. It is good because we can see that we have very frequent checkins. Another thing that you ...Shared by David (45) dominik (20) Glenn F. Henriksen (23) Jim Priest (11) Kenneth LeFebvre (9) Matt (16) mndoci (210) omar (24)Contribute comment
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Why are you showing such a contempt for my time? (3)
on Ayende @ Rahien (268) permalinkThis post just went over the line... I mean, how do you expect me to respond to such a message? In the old tradition of, don't give the man a fish, here is how you find out. There is this tool called Google. You can s-e-a-r-c-h things there. I used the advance technique of putting the search terms in the text box and clicked on Search. Here is the result: The third result, surprisingly enough, ...Contribute comment
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Sprint Loses Cases on Early Termination Fees (4)
on GottaBeMobile (165) permalinkI wouldn’t call this over by any stretch of the imagination but it does herald some potential good news for mobile customers. Yesterday, a judge handed Sprint Nextel a loss in a case over early termination fees. Sprint has two weeks to respond and if they lose here, I would imagine they will most likely appeal. While Sprint and the other Telcos argue that they need these fees to recoup the subsidies that they offer ...
- Jorge said: I think that if the courts rule in favor of Sprint, they should be required offer a price break on the monthly subscriptions to individuals that choose to pay for their phone in full up front to avoid having to sign a contract. They shouldn't be allowed to have their cake and eat it too. The cake is a lie!
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Web Applications Are Mostly Fairly Trivial (1)
on My Secret Life as a Spaghetti Coder (2) permalinkI put faith in web application development as an income source like I put faith in the United States Social Security system. That is to say, it's there now, but I don't expect to be able to rely on it in its current incarnation very far into the future. James Maguire quotes Robert Dewar hitting the nail on the head: Java is mainly used in Web applications that are mostly fairly trivial. If all we ...Shared by Kenneth LeFebvre (9)Contribute comment
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The great thing about me is that there's so many of me (2)
on Jeremy D. Miller -- The Shade Tree Developer (50) permalinkGeek points for identifying the movie quote from the title. Okay, I'm going to get this completely out of my system in one go and not do it anymore. I used to roll my eyes at people that only use their blog for "look at me, I'm speaking at such and such on this date and I just published this or that," but it appears that I'm one of those people now. I swear, I'm ...Shared by Jason (35) Kenneth LeFebvre (9)Contribute comment
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feedly+google search experiment (7)
on Edwin Khodabakchian (96) permalinkOne of the first pieces of feedback we received when we launched beta 1 was to extend feedly’s search capabilities. Paul was the first to raise this issue but many more requested a similar feature. We chewed on the idea for a few weeks, experimenting will multiple approaches. We will over the next two weeks push out some of the proof of concepts and listen to what people think. The first proof of concept is ...Shared by atul (550) guercheLE (145) Jonathan Bloom (35) keith (134) Kenneth LeFebvre (9) prattmic (144) Sanns (32)Contribute comment
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The great thing about me is that there's so many of me (1)
on Jeremy D. Miller -- The Shade Tree Developer (50) permalinkGeek points for identifying the movie quote from the title. Okay, I'm going to get this completely out of my system in one go and not do it anymore. I used to roll my eyes at people that only use their blog for "look at me, I'm speaking at such and such on this date and I just published this or that," but it appears that I'm one of those people now. I swear, I'm ...Shared by Kenneth LeFebvre (9)Contribute comment
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There is no such thing as a single developer project (8)
on Ayende @ Rahien (268) permalinkThere are always at least two people in any software project: The developer who wrote the code. The developer who read the code. They are never the same person, even if just by temporal dissonance.Shared by Bogdan Brinzarea (47) guercheLE (145) ignu (36) Kenneth LeFebvre (9) Kurt (60) Matt (27) Matt (16) Saul (59)
- ignu said: i just said nearly this exact thing today.
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Google Calendar Adds CalDAV Support, Enabling iCal Sync [Google Calendar] (118)
on Lifehacker (36820) permalinkGoogle Calendar has added support for the CalDAV standard, opening up a realm of syncing possibilities for business users and webapps. Right now it's somewhat limited, with a few known issues, but the big news is that it's now possible to sync your iCal and Google Calendars without any third-party software. As the Google Operating System notes, however, it's not an entirely simple process to hook the two up, so a free option like recently-made-free ...Shared by Aaron (52) Aaron M. (46) Aashay (37) Alan (144) Alec Peden (187) Alex (23) Andrés Milleiro (188) Andrew Eick (3) andronin (29) Bananalope (46) bddemir (19) Ben V (42) Benjamin (11) Black_Skorpio (63) Breyten (88) Caleb (65) cesaracardoso (206) Chad (41) chip (92) Chris (41) Chris Gilmore (46) Christian Santos (223) Christine Krizsa (0) Convoluted (136) ctomer (57) Dan Russell (150) Dave (8) Devin Reams (26) Dom Barnes (14) Don (56) Dorn (58) Dot Com (19) Doug Stewart (212) Dougied76 (7) dvmorris (65) Elton (15) Erik (21) Evan Sims (121) Fernando Batista (29) Fredrik Carlsson (54) G$ (55) Gabe (22) Gatewayy (30) glaforge (145) Hans (40) Hasan (199) hybridite (82) J.R. (28) Jake (77) Jamie R (82) Jamin (190) Jan (16) Jason (59) Jason (40) JasonV (43) jean-paul (26) Jeffrey (93) Joe Lencioni (66) johnk (76) Jon (38) Jonathan Sterling (159) Josi (86) joubertb (29) Kambiz (78) Kenneth LeFebvre (9) Lauren (16) Lee (54) lmjabreu (121) Lou (33) Mark (25) Mary Alice (90) mediter (198) merkurov (53) Michael (79) Michael (224) Michael (22) Michael (15) Mike (50) Mookyjooky (137) Nathan (21) NBW (34) Nick (19) Nick (49) Ooble (58) phrakture (42) Punkin (60) Ricky (21) rkj (28) Rob (25) Rob (111) robenalt (18) Robert Scoble (292) Ryan (88) Samiq (56) schisamo (23) Sean (83) Seth (62) sk (12) soufron (38) starbane (9) Stephan (45) Steve (11) technodad (45) Thadman (58) Thomas Reimer S (129) TJ (145) Tom (16) Tony Duckles (68) Twilight (26) urothane (28) voidfiles (149) Voyagerfan5761 (408) War-N (54) Wes Brown (54) whatevernevermind (175) Will (41) Zeus (44) Zypher (10)Explore read nine notes
- Josi said: still looks kind of buggy, i'll stick with calgoo for now...
- Evan Sims said: Nice!
- Jan said: very cool - I'll be trying this later
- ctomer said: Google enables CalDav!! Woohoo!!
- schisamo said: YES!!!!!
- Zeus said: I won't have to pay for SpanningSync anymore
- Lee said: This will improve my life.
- Kambiz said: Even less of a reason to need Apple's Mobile Me.
- Dave said: noice
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Understanding The Hardware (69)
on Coding Horror (2770) permalinkI got a call from Rob Conery today asking for advice on building his own computer. Rob works for Microsoft, but lives in Hawaii. I'm not sure how he managed that, but being so far from the mothership apparently means he has the flexibility to spec his own PC. Being stuck in Hawaii is, I'm sure, a total bummer, dude. Rob and I may disagree on pretty much everything from a coding perspective, but we ...Shared by [ebarrera] (33) Aju (6) Alexandru Savu (123) Appu (23) Arne (7) Ashish Mohta (335) Ashwan (2) Ben (39) Benk (31) Blake Matheny (44) Brit (87) Bryan Ray (16) Cade (209) Christian (29) clementi (92) Clint Ecker (308) Compuwizard123 (229) D. Hayes (44) dan (20) David Arcos (79) Dmitry Lomov (21) Donnie Berkholz (100) Doug (121) funkatron (9) g9yuayon (65) Goulu (92) guercheLE (145) Guillermo Salas (26) Harper (226) Isaac (37) Jan (16) Jannik (29) jerobins (67) Jesús Dugarte (65) Jisan A (48) Johan (45) Justin Yost (266) Kenneth LeFebvre (9) lakshmi (19) ManiacD (61) mattw (31) Michael Neel (84) Mike (114) Mike F (2153) Morton Fox (314) Nat (38) Nitro (46) panuta (30) Peter (64) peysal (27) Philip Spohn (67) pt9386 (41) Rich (35) Riyaz Mohammed Ibrahim (19) rochoa (34) Shannon (13) shivanand (20) smerrell (34) spoon16 (74) Srinvard (288) steven (33) stuartcw (29) Swapy (34) TiernanO (40) Tim (212) Toby (27) Tom Q (33) Yaakov (51) Yuvi (141)Explore read four notes
- Christian said: La bonne config
- Clint Ecker said: There is pretty much no way you could pay me to build a computer from scratch these days. I had my heyday in high school and college building computers but I can't deal with those headaches anymore.
- Srinvard said: Build a computer!
- panuta said: Recommended cooler is interesting
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Disagree With Walmart's Bike Policy? Take Off Your Clothes In Protest! [Activism] (23)
on Consumerist (3422) permalinkBikeForums member ReachHigher stripped down to her sports bra and spandex after Walmart refused to let her enter the store with her $600 bike. A manager explained that since Walmart sold bikes, bringing in an outside bike would obviously be too confusing to handle. ReachHigher asked if they also sold shirts. "She said yes so I took off my jersey and said well then I'd better not bring this in either..." ...She got kind of ...Shared by Brett (7) Brodie (23) btvillarin (50) Corris (17) Crutcher D (100) David Worrell (66) dj empirical (194) Dominic Hopton (101) guercheLE (145) Jim (49) Kenneth LeFebvre (9) Kristen (21) mhking (210) Michelle Martinez (181) mikebee (130) nadir (18) Nathan (197) Nathaniel Dean (112) phillip (88) phrakture (42) Rob (69) Terrence (71) usrbingeek (75)
- nadir said: this woman is most excellent. eff walmart with a backhoe, at least three times. seriously, what sort of seeds and stems was this woman smoking to try and keep her out. walmart is for idiots.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Some Thoughts on the Open Web Foundation (9)
on Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life (645) permalinkDisclaimer: This post does not reflect the opinions, thoughts, strategies or future intentions of my employer. These are solely my personal opinions. If you are seeking official position statements from Microsoft, please go here. Earlier this week, David Recordon announced the creation of the Open Web Foundation at OSCON 2008. His presentation is embedded below From the organization's Web site you get the following outline of it's mission The Open Web Foundation is an attempt ...Shared by Ade (96) Dr. Ernie (163) guercheLE (145) James (74) Jeremy (385) Kenneth LeFebvre (9) Nick Main (17) Pete Johnston (11) Thomas Amberg (96)
- Nick Main said: Kids these days - they have no respect for the old ways..
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Putting things in perspective (3)
on My Secret Life as a Spaghetti Coder (2) permalinkUntil today, I haven't been able to watch videos on the internet for more than 5 minutes or so -- they just haven't been able to hold my attention long enough for me to sit through them - even things I would normally watch on TV. I was able to sit through this 1 hour and 15 minute video of Randy Pausch giving a "Last Lecture" at Carnegie Mellon University: It was worth every minute, ...
- Raanan Avidor said: perspective is important.
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feedly+friendfeed rooms (12)
on Edwin Khodabakchian (96) permalinkBased on hoshposh suggestion, we enhanced the feedly+friendfeed integration to allow you to support rooms: (Note: the friendfeed APIs are some of the nicest out there. If you are looking at designing a set of REST+JSON APIs for your service, it is definitely worthed to look at what the friendfeed team has done).Shared by Alex (23) atul (550) Bwana (287) Dimitar D (116) Duncan (230) guercheLE (145) Jeffrey Blais (126) Jonathan Bloom (35) kenmat (38) Kenneth LeFebvre (9) sarahintampa (459) wAsh (7)Contribute comment
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Coding Without Comments (127)
on Coding Horror (2770) permalinkIf peppering your code with lots of comments is good, then having zillions of comments in your code must be great, right? Not quite. Excess is one way good comments go bad: '************************************************* ' Name: CopyString ' ' Purpose: This routine copies a string from the source ' string (source) to the target string (target). ' ' Algorithm: It gets the length of "source" and then copies each ' character, one at a time, into ...Shared by 100rabh™ (103) 4r1f (8) abhi (18) adastra (46) Alan (88) Alan Kelon Oliveira de Moraes (36) Alcides Fonseca (90) Alex (18) Alex C (119) Alexandru Savu (123) Anand Sharma (52) Andrei (119) Andy Wibbels (74) Anthony (165) Appu (23) Aranittara (35) Bahadır (34) Baobin (28) Ben (39) Benk (31) BlueCockatoo (164) Bojan (38) Brit (87) Cade (209) Chandoo (211) CMS (18) Compuwizard123 (229) D. Lambert (13) Dave C (20) David Arcos (79) DeadRinga (225) Denis Gobo (66) Dennis (45) Dennis Laumen (62) Dominic Hopton (101) Douglas F Silva (10) drewenut (38) elmarco (40) EricAppel (28) Felipe Plets (22) finalcut (21) Florin (16) Frank Sons (46) gizmo (88) grant (134) Guillermo Salas (26) iamnoah (13) Ionut (34) Isaac (37) James Dorminey (49) Jamie R (82) Jannik (29) Jeff (161) Jeff (67) jerobins (67) John (49) Jon Erickson (73) Jonas (70) Joshua Wilde (18) Justin Yost (266) kebernet (165) Kenneth LeFebvre (9) Lance Fisher (43) LaptopHeaven (47) LiquidLag (32) LouCypher (214) Magnus (36) ManiacD (61) marshall (28) Matt (16) Migs (22) Mike (114) Morton Fox (314) Mrinal (73) Nathan Chase (66) Nathaniel Dean (112) Nicholas (21) Nick Campbell (111) Nikki (179) npike (53) oguzdag (22) peysal (27) Piku (16) Powera (130) pt9386 (41) ritesh (40) Riyaz Mohammed Ibrahim (19) robby (28) Roberto (111) Ron (43) Russ (20) Sakib (64) sanatgersappa (8) Saul (59) sczizzo (51) Sérgio Rebelo (12) Shaun (54) Shine (17) shivanand (20) smuggyuk (13) spoon16 (74) Stephen (29) Steve (29) Steve (31) sugree (120) tarmo888 (24) Ted (42) terababy (21) Thomas Amberg (96) Tim (212) timbednar (12) TiTi (399) Todd (12) Tony Ruscoe (50) tripp (23) turker (38) Vahid (1220) Vashira (25
