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His handwriting is gorgeous!
Except I literally cannot read it
And given how practiced his hand looks, I wouldn't be surprised if he was able to write this much quicker in cursive than I could write it in printed letters.
who simulated it's interpreter by cards lifted by his family :)
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I'm highly interested to know what class of "common mistakes" you are referring to here. This sounds like a very fun environment/method to do things.
Over time, I got used to catching off-by-one errors in loops as well as assignment to incorrect variables of the same type. But when I write code in an editor, these errors always pop up. I guess it's because the feedback loop is so small, whereas every second counts in a competition environment. Yes, it was pretty fun. I wish I took it more seriously though: we never really practiced much and just attended competiti…
I always find writing out my programs (even in pseudocode) before actually attempting to type it out has helped me weed out bugs in the long run. This is especially true as long as whiteboard interviews is still relevant. Despite me typing pretty fast on a keyboard (~90wpm), writing things out on paper makes me think more carefully, and I don't have to maintain a contextual overhead in pressing the right keys or seei…
In 1992 for my final pre-exams deliverable at uni I wrote the entire program text (in Pascal) out on pen and paper overnight, fuelled by cheap lager and Red Bull. Queued at the door waiting for the lab to open in the morning, then typed the lot in and was delighted to discover not only no syntax errors, but no bugs. Ran it, took a few screenshots, printed them and the listing, delivered it to my tutor and went to the…
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Except I literally cannot read it
Did you not learn cursive in grade school? This looks exceptionally readable to me, and other than the capital letters it doesn't really have any flourishes. And given how practiced his hand looks, I wouldn't be surprised if he was able to write this much quicker in cursive than I could write it in printed letters.
This is the sort of thing I write into "notes.txt" and check in to source control as a support document. Writing your notes in a bound notebook as un-OCR-able calligraphy, and then scanning the results to image files is not likely to endear you to me as a co-worker.
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I do all my coding in gregg shorthand
I know this was a joke, but do you by any chance know any shorthand? I tried to teach myself Gregg here and there years ago, but it requires more dedication than I was willing to put in to become fluent.
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It's some Spencerian variation, indeed. I can't fathom why he uses that paper format... Those pages are annoyingly narrow! Also, I agree with you, Spencerian (or any other ornate script) is not the best for coding notes.
Which script would be best, in your opinion?
Of course, to each their own... (I love penmanship, and I'm fluent in several scripts, but I do my coding in Emacs, thank you very much!)
This is the sort of thing I write into "notes.txt" and check in to source control as a support document. Writing your notes in a bound notebook as un-OCR-able calligraphy, and then scanning the results to image files is not likely to endear you to me as a co-worker.
You'd rather have plain text than hand-written diagrams? I think most of the difficulty is in not knowing APL like notation.
The handwritten bound notebook cannot be searched, diff'ed, or versioned. It is strictly inferior to the plaintext file in most ways that are in any way relevant to writing software.
Its nemesis, of course, is and has always been the mathematical equation, whose notations confound the plaintext writer at every turn. For those, you can write it to an image, or use LaTeX or MathML.