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I'm not entirely disagreeing, but this is a disgusting mindset when applied to mathematics, and programming is applied mathematics. I've seen it so often. The incompetent spend so much of their time dredging up excuses for mediocrity, rather than improving.
You may want to rethink this one
Would be just better with capital letters.
i don't know if I'm alone in this, but i find this style easier to read - find it less intense in a way. maybe it's an adaptive thing. maybe i'm just weird. when i read caps i can almost feel the author's resentment at having had to reach for one of those shift keys and break up their typing rhythm, when without them text can flow so easily.
I'm not entirely disagreeing, but this is a disgusting mindset when applied to mathematics, and programming is applied mathematics. I've seen it so often. The incompetent spend so much of their time dredging up excuses for mediocrity, rather than improving.
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Can you provide some rough statistics of each group size from your personal experience? Not asking to trap you but I am genuinely interested whether in practice it is useful to focus on the underlying cause. Intentionally sloppy vs. inexperienced/tired/overworked/ADHD sloppy
Intentionally sloppy is someone I would categorise as being persistent sloppy, and showing no interest in improving themselves, but also a resistance to advice, and/or feedback. It sounds silly, because "who wouldn't wanna improve?", but sometimes they can't tell the difference between saying/wishing it and doing it. I'd say I probably had a handful of such colleagues out of roughly ~70 devs I've worked with. They we…
Probably. Do they get paid any less than you? At the end of the day it’s your employer that benefits from your commitment to quality, not you. Your employer is also the one paying your colleague, so unless your his/her boss it’s not really you who gets to judge the quality of their work.
I am not aiming for perfect, or better. I am no longer aiming. I am reacting to the kinetics of the life I long ago put into motion.
When I first began cutting up oxen, all I could see was the ox itself. After three years, I no longer saw the ox as a whole. And now—now I meet it with my spirit and don’t look with my eyes. My senses and conscious awareness have shut down and my spiritual desires take me away. I follow the Heavenly pattern of the ox, thrusting into the big hollows, guiding the knife through the big openings, and adapting my motions to the fixed structure of the ox. In this way, I never touch the smallest ligament or tendon, much less a main joint.
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Mathematics can be applied to programming, for sure. However, much of programming is encoding of business processes. Such that, unless you expand your scope for all business process also being applied mathematics, I'm not sure this is that instructive.
Let's use the linux kernel as an example, since it does very few, well-defined things, and still doesn't work. This comes from an inability to imagine better, an unwillingness to use proper tools, and an attitude that kernel panics be acceptable. It's fine to solve a vague problem by simply having the machine ask for human direction in a few cases. It's not fine to have the machine do something inappropriate or crash…
Would be just better with capital letters.
i don't know if I'm alone in this, but i find this style easier to read - find it less intense in a way. maybe it's an adaptive thing. maybe i'm just weird. when i read caps i can almost feel the author's resentment at having had to reach for one of those shift keys and break up their typing rhythm, when without them text can flow so easily.
Personally the caps are second nature. You may find me sending U's and O's before you see me sending i's :-)
I'm not entirely disagreeing, but this is a disgusting mindset when applied to mathematics, and programming is applied mathematics. I've seen it so often. The incompetent spend so much of their time dredging up excuses for mediocrity, rather than improving.
I'm not sure I'd be comfortable, calling it "disgusting." It's different from the one I tend to apply, in my own work. I used to work for a famous Japanese imaging corporation. Their brand was pretty much synonymous with "Quality." They got that way, by practicing Perfection as a religion. It could be very, very tough, to deal with, but it gave me a great appreciation for a Quality mindset, in my own work. The result…
Would be just better with capital letters.
I am not aiming for perfect, or better. I am no longer aiming. I am reacting to the kinetics of the life I long ago put into motion.
Like Butcher Ding: When I first began cutting up oxen, all I could see was the ox itself. After three years, I no longer saw the ox as a whole. And now—now I meet it with my spirit and don’t look with my eyes. My senses and conscious awareness have shut down and my spiritual desires take me away. I follow the Heavenly pattern of the ox, thrusting into the big hollows, guiding the knife through the big openings, and a…
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