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The Mythical Man-Month is a classic, not just for CS.

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

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…

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 …

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 matte…

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.

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…

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..…

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 bo…

This boils down to: "Stop doing this, you're not enjoying it right!".

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