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My working assumption is that it makes a certain type of person feel like they're doing Real Academic Stuff, and not just showing off that they can remember syn
by eponeponepon 9y ago
My working assumption is that it makes a certain type of person feel like they're doing Real Academic Stuff, and not just showing off that they can remember syntax without an IDE highlighting their screwups.
(full disclosure: I cannot remember syntax without an IDE highlighting my screwups)
- __s 9y agoI'm at a workplace where 5 of our walls have been coated into being white boards. We also have a couple of whiteboards on wheels. We don't write code on whiteboards. Instead, we tend to write: data diagrams, UI mock up discussions, project planning, month end acknowledgements, scrum board notes / grids, brain storming (often in meetings), retro columns of good/bad/ugly, announcements to the office like new wifi password or when people are away Recently we started a new project. I worked out a database schema around the concept of an Entity Component System. You have an Entity table with a primary id column & nothing else, & no other table has a primary key. I scribbled out some tables manually & was able to demonstrate the flexibility this enables to the team
- Fomite 9y agoDoes this mean I get an exemption for loving whiteboards because I am doing Real Academic Stuff (tm)?