It’s better to do things the wrong way rather than not doing them at all.
—Commenter on HN
Weekend hackers; now on a tumblr near you
Me and @th3dz are live in my kitchen, trying to get some sort of rails app up and running in the next day or so.
Follow the progress on http://satsuncoding.tumblr.com/ where we will try to document the process and frustration.
Anonymous asked: whats up
Vacation
Procrastinators - Leaders of tomorrow
—T-Shirt on random guy
A salesman has to deal with customers, and a developer has to deal with competitors’ software, but a system administarator, like an old bachelor, has few external forces to keep him in line
It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.
Datamining stackoverflow to provide some interesting statistics.
TL;DR version at the bottom of the post
- Number of coders drops significantly with age. Top developer numbers, at age 27, drop by half every 6-7 years.
- Developers in their 40s answer roughly twice as much and ask half the questions compared to colleagues in their 20s. It seems younger generation learns and older generation teaches.
- Quality of posts, i.e. upvotes earned by post, only slightly increases with age.
- Seniors earn their high reputation by being more active than younger developers.
Those things you have to write in school are not only not essays, they’re one of the most pointless of all the pointless hoops you have to jump through in school.
—A Version 1.0 essay by Paul Graham
Raw Syntax: Importance of Side Projects
Side projects are important for a few reasons. Programming is a creative process. Side projects allow programming without deadlines or restraints. Side projects allow programming in an exploratory way.
Explore new technologies
Every day there are more and more bleeding edge technologies coming…
(Source: rawsyntax)
The startup genome project - The first report is in
And so the wait for the backlash from scholars of scientific method begins.
Interesting read, can’t wait to see what they produce later on.
"The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday! - edw519
Ed Weissman built a book out of his HN comments.
It made me think about how much you actually write during a lifetime that could be compiled into a book with minimal editing.
The free “book” consist of answers to all those questions we all know and love. I call these kinds of questions productivity-porn and procrastination enablers.
It also reminds me that I have to start a new blog in the fall when I start working. Explanation and reflection reinforces learning right?
