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I love the "don't give a F let me broadcast all of it" mentality here. This is amazing. Starting a project much less a business has a lot of ups and downs. Putt
by dopeboy 9y ago
I love the "don't give a F let me broadcast all of it" mentality here. This is amazing. Starting a project much less a business has a lot of ups and downs. Putting a camera on top of you for all of it probably works wonders on morale.
- swiley 9y agoI went through a 2 year period where I put every one of my experiments and side projects on github and tried to update at least one every other day or so. Knowing that other people could see when I stopped motivated me a lot. The whole thing made me a better programmer too.
- dopeboy 9y agoThat's really interesting. Can you expound on this a little more? I've never done it but am thinking about it so that's why I ask. Were you self conscious? How'd it make you a better programmer? Did you talk out what you were doing?
- swiley 9y agoYes I was self conscious, that's what encouraged me to keep fixing things so people would see me working rather than slacking off (it's similar to the IM client busy/away indicator at work.) It made me a better programmer simply because I was doing it more, so I kept encountering problems and having to solve them. I learned why more experienced programmers do things and don't do things, I got better at using GDB and started using valgrind etc.
- pgeorgep 9y agoI've tried to document the journey of building a product and it added a tremendous load of stress to the already stressful process. Props to the "don't give a F let me broadcast all of it" mentality.