I read a lot more email than I write, because what my job really is — in the end, my job is to say no.
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So commit messages to me are almost as important as the code change itself.
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A lot of open source in general is about communication. And part of it is the commit messages, part of it is just the email going back and forth. Communicating what you're trying to do or communicating why something doesn't work for you is really important.
Schlagwort: Programmieren
C Email O.
Efficency.
However cryptocurrency does not provide any technical answers to the inefficiencies since its entire existence is purely predicated on the appeal as a speculative investment first and not on its efficacy to transmit value.
Soft Skills.
PHP is a hell of a language.
Müllsammlung.
Hmmm; we can't postpone the dirty work any longer. In emergency situations, garbage collection is a necessity. And occasionally, as a ZDD base grows, garbage collection is a nicety, to keep our house in order.
Progrem.
I write an average of five new programs every week. Poets have to write poems. I have to write computer programs.
The ultimate test of whether I understand something is if I can explain it to a computer. I can say something to you and you’ll nod your head, but I’m not sure that I explained it well. But the computer doesn’t nod its head. It repeats back exactly what I tell it. In most of life, you can bluff, but not with computers.
Donald Knuth in Quanta Magazine: The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories