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Code IS documentation!
Like how a recording of a performance is the same as the sheet music.
But it's a ton easier when you're young, and your brain is malleable.
I was in high school when this came out so I can recite this song word-for-word because in 1999, it was all over MTV, the radio, and most importantly, on Napster. I remember the original 1997 edit (even though I first heard it in 1999), because that was the version I downloaded off of Napster as a 15 year old. Even back then, there were all sorts of weird attributions to it (I think that my Napster copy had a Kurt Vo…
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Development is like a one-way hash function: a line of code may have been added and structured a particular way for any one of an infinite number of reasons. Without the documentation (the forward mapping) there's no way to exactly predict its intended function, leading to all sorts of misunderstandings further down the line when someone tries to reverse it.
Doesn't need re-explaining but makes me realise we often talk about comments explaining what code does, which leads to "your code should be well-written so it's easy to understand what it does" or "I'm a good developer, I can understand that easily by reading it". But as you say the question is why - people will often be reading existing code because of a bug, so clearly the thought process that created it had a faul…
Inline comments just become out of date or mangled. Commit revisions are the source of truth.
It's amazing how every so often, I gain new insight into a line from this song. I recently hit 40, and "be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone" is starting to make sense in a way that used to be more abstract.
Hopefully this helps someone else. I'm approaching 50. I just took up mountain biking after moving to an area that has lots of trails. I have seen gains in my health and my mood that I worried might not return. I ride with a guy who's 60 and he regularly smokes the rest of us. My wife and I started kayaking together recently and that's done wonders for mood, health, and our marriage. So, here's my advice: 1) Don't st…
I agree with all this! Great list. I'm considering taking today off from doing hills on the mountain bike, but maybe I'll still go out and ride some flats, not sure it's more healthy to take a day off from it right now. I felt great for hours after both rides.
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I'm 41. I just asked 6 friends who are my contemporaries and each of them knew this song well. It was also, of course, extremely popular, as the link points out. Can you introspect a bit about what may be unusual about you so that you were never exposed to this song?
I'm 40 and I've never heard it, nor have the 4 people sitting around me. We were all in Ontario when this song was apparently popular. We were all massively into music at the time.
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I can attest to that, my wife and I are planning the digital nomad lifestyle later this year. But we are doing it only in the US, staying in one brand of hotels (Hilton brands -- Homewood and Embassy's mostly) to take advantage of loyalty programs for free nights, the consistency over trying to stay at an AirBnb and just for comfort, and flying everywhere. It's going to take us at least 3 years to hit all of the plac…
A few tips from my years of traveling for work: Every hotel has mini fridges they can put in your room. These are for people who have medicine that needs to be refrigerated. You can request one of these fridges if your room doesn't have a fridge. I always let them know that I don't need it for medicine and that they can have it back if they need it. I did this every week and only once was a hotel ever out of fridges;…
I have a Roku stick for traveling. It has a feature that lets it log in to captured networks where you have to login. Some hotels have remotes that don’t allow you to change the source. I travel with a couple of “universal” brand specific remotes
TMobile has a “secret plan” called Global 15 that gives you unlimited high speed hot spot data in the US (not 3G) for $50 a month. I signed up for that.
I travel as a consultant occasionally and I visit my parents decently often and work from there. I’ve optimized my travel setup:
- I have a portable USB C powered display for a second display
- I use my iPad as a third display using Duet (the native Mac screen sharing doesn’t work on my corporate laptop)
- I have a Roost 3 laptop stand
- I have the largest airplane legal Anker battery pack that can charge a laptop and other devices
- I have a few truly “universal cords”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093YVRHMB
BTW: I locked myself out of this account (typo in the noprocast setting). I’m the original commenter.
This song has the best advise I've ever heard. Every single line. I remember hearing it when it first came out, and I remember thinking of it many times throughout my life.
It's amazing how every so often, I gain new insight into a line from this song. I recently hit 40, and "be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone" is starting to make sense in a way that used to be more abstract.
Protip from someone who is 45 and has had bad knees since he was 15: Strengthen the muscles around the knee as much as possible. The stronger your quads and calves are, the better your knees will be. The best way to do this is squats with either no weights or just a couple of pounds. You may need to wear knee braces when you do this (in my case I was able to skip the braces after about 10 years) This is actually true…