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Hiring Good Programmers Matters
Doctor O writes "Joel Spolsky (of joelonsoftware fame) has some good points and fun with numbers on the quality of programmers and whether it is more profitable to go with cheap or good programmers. His point is that a good programmer will simply create code of a quality that average programmers never can create. An interesting read."
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You are no longer a FP virgin!
Sadly, you are now 100x more likely to be a real life virgin.
I took CS 323a...in fact, I took it in Fall 2001, making my times part of the COMPRESS01, (which we called encode-decode, and we had to learn how to do hard and soft links, as they called the same executeable), SHELL01, et cetera. The best part of TFA is where Joel discusses the assignments in 323a.....I still have my time.log files, and am shocked at some of the time figures -- although they were posted when I was an undergraduate, I never really paid much attention to the statistics...
/encode/foo/ directory and then calling it. His method of teaching things (YAGNI) was simply amazing....and it is sad that he isn't more well known. I still cherish my class notes.
As a side note, Stan Eisenstat puts CS kids through some crazy hoops. In the compress program, you have to detect how you have been called (Argv[0]) -- except you cant just look for "encode" or "decode" -- as one of Stan's favorites was putting the file in an
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. (Larry Wall)
From the article: The Creative Zen team could spend years refining their ugly iPod knockoffs and never produce as beautiful, satisfying, and elegant a player as the Apple iPod. And they're not going to make a dent in Apple's market share because the magical design talent is just not there. They don't have it. Untill the battery dies, and you find out you have to pay $99 every year to keep using it...
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.