1x Programming

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Re: 1x Programming

#6

Post by outside1234 » Mon, Apr 18, 2022, 4:58 PM UTC

Thanks for writing this - as you get more senior one of the things you realize is that the people involved in software are more important than the software itself.

Optimize for the people: The users, the community (either your team or the open source project community), and the stakeholders in your software's success. The code is a tool that you can use to make those people happier and more successful.

Re: 1x Programming

#7

Post by henning » Mon, Apr 18, 2022, 4:59 PM UTC

There is plenty of room for excellence in the humble day-to-day glue programming this post talks about. There are arguably better and worse glue programmers. I have gotten better at doing the kind of work the post describes. I also think macho bullshit posted by VCs talking about "losers", "10x engineers", and "shape manipulators" who haven't written production code in decades if they ever did and have never written the kind of code I write is bullshit.

Re: 1x Programming

#8

Post by temp8964 » Mon, Apr 18, 2022, 5:05 PM UTC

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Re: 1x Programming

#9

Post by kbenson » Mon, Apr 18, 2022, 5:08 PM UTC

henning wrote: post #7

There is plenty of room for excellence in the humble day-to-day glue programming this post talks about. There are arguably better and worse glue programmers. I have gotten better at doing the kind of work the post describes. I also think macho bullshit posted by VCs talking about "losers", "10x engineers", and "shape manipulators" who haven't written production code in decades if they ever did and have never written…

I'm not sure I've ever heard of a "shape manipulator" before, and I'm at such a loss as to what it could be that Google isn't super useful without additional context to lean on. The only thing I saw that might fit would be NumPy arrary shape manipulation.

Anyone care to expand on what a shape manipulator is and where that came from?

Re: 1x Programming

#10

Post by joliu » Mon, Apr 18, 2022, 5:10 PM UTC

kbenson wrote: post #9

henning wrote: post #7

There is plenty of room for excellence in the humble day-to-day glue programming this post talks about. There are arguably better and worse glue programmers. I have gotten better at doing the kind of work the post describes. I also think macho bullshit posted by VCs talking about "losers", "10x engineers", and "shape manipulators" who haven't written production code in decades if they ever did and have never written…

I'm not sure I've ever heard of a "shape manipulator" before, and I'm at such a loss as to what it could be that Google isn't super useful without additional context to lean on. The only thing I saw that might fit would be NumPy arrary shape manipulation. Anyone care to expand on what a shape manipulator is and where that came from?

Shape Rotator. That is the meme.