How I Became a Better Programmer
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How I Became a Better Programmer
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Re: How I Became a Better Programmer
#2I would shorten it to:
- develop critical thinking
- take time to learn
- force yourself to understand (avoid cargo cult)
- accumulate non-redundant experience
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#3I would shorten it to: - develop critical thinking - take time to learn - force yourself to understand (avoid cargo cult) - accumulate non-redundant experience
At this risk of sounding like a Buzzfeed headline, number 3 has been key for me. Diving into a new "whatever" and asking how and why it does something makes it so much easier to "get" something. Bottom up vs top-down approach.
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#4He writes "find people who inspire you, but don't idolize them".
And yet, his blog repository[1] which is, in his words, "This is just a stupid simple server that indexes posts off the filesystem", has 1193 stars. Why would anyone star anything like that if not because they idolize jlongster?
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#5I'm glad the author mentioned learning new languages.
I have been coding Go recently and even tho it's not my main language, it has helped me to think about simpler designs when I'm using other languages.
Other than that becoming proficient in C and systems programming (Thanks xv6 book) was a major game changer for me.
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#6He writes "find people who inspire you, but don't idolize them". And yet, his blog repository[1] which is, in his words, "This is just a stupid simple server that indexes posts off the filesystem", has 1193 stars. Why would anyone star anything like that if not because they idolize jlongster? [1]: https://github.com/jlongster/blog
i don't see the contradiction. he's not asking for people to star his repo and it's not unreasonable to offer this advice if you perceive harmful cults of personality developing in a community. besides, lots of people just star things for lots of different reasons, bookmarking, giving props or ???.
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#7Excellent practical comments. Have not attempted the compiler piece yet. Will try
Also, taking pet projects and tech to completion has helped me learn tech deeper. Plus doing office-Wide sessions in sharing them.
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#8Ok I came in thinking this was going to be another "don't do this, don't do that" type of deal, but was pleasantly surprised about it being upbeat and closer to e-prime. Nice job.
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#9He writes "find people who inspire you, but don't idolize them". And yet, his blog repository[1] which is, in his words, "This is just a stupid simple server that indexes posts off the filesystem", has 1193 stars. Why would anyone star anything like that if not because they idolize jlongster? [1]: https://github.com/jlongster/blog
i don't see the contradiction. he's not asking for people to star his repo and it's not unreasonable to offer this advice if you perceive harmful cults of personality developing in a community. besides, lots of people just star things for lots of different reasons, bookmarking, giving props or ???.
"or ???", what does that mean?
I didn't point a contradiction, just noted that he has fans that idolize him. The contradiction is theirs.
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#10He writes "find people who inspire you, but don't idolize them". And yet, his blog repository[1] which is, in his words, "This is just a stupid simple server that indexes posts off the filesystem", has 1193 stars. Why would anyone star anything like that if not because they idolize jlongster? [1]: https://github.com/jlongster/blog
As he notes in the README, the old version was more interesting.[1] I suspect that most people starred the repo at that point.