How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

raamdev wrote: post #2

Awesome read (and I voted it up again), but this has been here before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=370874 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=365094

I actually came looking for those posts the other day and couldn't find them.

Re: How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

#5

Post by jamesbritt » Sun, Jun 28, 2009, 6:32 PM UTC

"Debugging is the cornerstone of being a programmer."

Does anyone here believe this?

Re: How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

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Post by raamdev » Mon, Jun 29, 2009, 7:51 PM UTC

Goladus wrote: post #4

raamdev wrote: post #2

Awesome read (and I voted it up again), but this has been here before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=370874 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=365094

I actually came looking for those posts the other day and couldn't find them.

When I saw this submission, I remembered seeing it a few months earlier so I tried using searchyc.com to find it. I had no luck, so I tried Google. Got it in one shot ("How to be a Programmer" site:news.ycombinator.com).

Re: How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

#7

Post by chengmi » Tue, Jun 30, 2009, 1:00 AM UTC

raamdev wrote: post #6

Goladus wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually came looking for those posts the other day and couldn't find them.

When I saw this submission, I remembered seeing it a few months earlier so I tried using searchyc.com to find it. I had no luck, so I tried Google. Got it in one shot ("How to be a Programmer" site:news.ycombinator.com).

Gah! Thanks for the tip. There's a bug relating to quotes on SearchYC and "how to be a" are all stopwords or ranked very low in relevance.

http://searchyc.com/programmer+short+comprehensive+personal+...