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by edw519 13y ago
This is what has worked for me for 28 years: 1. Establish a standard daily routine. Follow it every day, Monday thru Friday, without exception . This is the key. This is what you must do every day, whether you feel like it or not. Weekend
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Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren’t Startups So Much More?(bothsidesofthetable.com)
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What is it like to be a geek in a prison?(quora.com)
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by edw519 13y ago
8. Protect your job: Write code that only you can maintain. Always have a "backlog" in dev that needs you to promote it. Cultivate customers who want only you. 9. Bring up the same fundamental company flaws every staff meeting. Th
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What writer would pass up the opportunity to peer into the reader’s mind? Hemingway, Faulkner, Dickens, Twain, Thoreau, Capote... (I can go on and on, but you kinda get the idea.) Do you honestly think that great writers ever gave a shit
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Wow, 2226 words and not one of them was "customer" or "user". ("user groups" doesn't count because in this context the user is "me".) That's the whole problem with this; it's entire foc
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How ironic, coming the same week as LGBT education sites are blocked by British "porn" filters. The best pardon to someone who is dead would be to stop doing similar misdeeds to those who are living.
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I'd rather hire a smart person and teach them X then hire someone who knows everything about X but lacks creativity, logic, and reasoning. This! That one sentence pretty much addressed all of your questions and concerns. So instead o
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Venture capitalist wants to split California into six pieces (video)(usnews.nbcnews.com)
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I have been wondering why it took me so long to become a better, faster programmer. I accomplish as much in a week now as I did in a year back then. Was I that stupid back then? Have a become a much better learner? Was is the "10,000&q
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I like to think that there are no failures, just unexpected learning experiences on the way to something else. This sounds like one. Thanks for the post. Looking forward to what's next.
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Forget "the best city", and find the right city for you. TheRightCityForYou === WhereeverYoureAtRightNow BuildingSomethingNow > (Thinking | Planning | Networking | ...)
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by edw519 13y ago
There are 2 ways to evaluate something else: with data or with perceptions. Almost everyone judges by perceptions. Unfortunately this is not limited to middle school cafeterias, single bars, or amateur hours. Some of the biggest culprits ar
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Cul-de-sacs are killing America(news.yahoo.com)
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Sorry to say but this post really rubbed me the wrong way. Let me explain... Her important headings for "doing a startup in your spare time": - Managing tasks - Sharing links - Talking to other founders - Emailing custom
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by edw519 13y ago
My advice is to solve a problem you yourself have. This is a subset of "solve a problem someone has". (Someone = You) is often a sufficient, but not necessary, condition. (Someone = Someone Else) is an equally sufficient condi
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by edw519 13y ago
"And yeah, I remember that fill code. I always felt guilty because it contained a goto statement. I don't think I've written a "goto" since." Loved this! Glad I'm not the only one :-) My last goto statemen
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by edw519 13y ago
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation http://old.easyco.com/easydocs/d3/pickref/page15
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IT worker throws out hard drive, loses $7.5 million Bitcoin fortune(worldnews.nbcnews.com)
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Nice post. A few more of my own: 1. There is no substitute for the hours spent coding. Sure, you can waste a lot of time, but there's a high correlation between hours spent and skill attained. 2. You can do almost anything with almost
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by edw519 13y ago
This discussion reminds me of Joel Spolsky's "Hitting the High Notes": http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html Instead of debating with every other PHB, PM/BA, or clueless customer, I
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Facebook reportedly bids $3 billion for Snapshot(marketwatch.com)
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GAO: $1 billion TSA behavioral screening program 'slightly better than chance'(investigations.nbcnews.com)
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Why Johnny can't write, and why employers are mad(nbcnews.com)
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Programmers shouldn't be measured by minutes clocked, but by value delivered. There is often little correlation between the two. The sooner management understands this, the sooner this question doesn't even get asked.
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Excellent list. A few more: - What will my typical day be like? (The answer will always start with "We don't have a typical day." So you say, "I know. Describe it as if there were one.") - What will my life be like
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Black Girls Code launching in Miami(miamiherald.com)
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$250 Million For A 14-Year-Old's Big Idea: Origami Owl(smallbusiness.yahoo.com)
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by edw519 13y ago
Hi, OP. Thanks for the interesting post. Off the top of my head: 1. Variables declared or assigned, but never referenced again 2. Improper variable scope (local/global) 3. Reserved words (by language, framework, industry, app) used as

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