I can't say I was unhappy that he stopped his cruel research. That said however, I do not condone the use of "terror" to achieve these outcomes and certainly don't support those methods. I feel research should not involve the torturing of living creatures.
I realised that IDEs were slowly turning me into a lazy programmer, and with all the fancy tools for searching / locating and hyperlinking I was actually not getting to know the code base. By forcing myself to use emacs and the command line I found myself getting to know the code more intimately and actually learning the language much better. I found that with IDEs highlighting my mistakes, I was constantly making the same mistakes because I would correct them out of habit rather than learning not to make them in the first place. I still use an IDE when I need to get an overview of the code base, or sometimes for intense debugging sessions, but I use them more as a supplement than a main tool and it's completely changed the way I code for the better.
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hmm... maybe they need blowfish to guard against the ev1l h@x0rz
I can't say I was unhappy that he stopped his cruel research. That said however, I do not condone the use of "terror" to achieve these outcomes and certainly don't support those methods. I feel research should not involve the torturing of living creatures.
Pathetic. An incentive to torture other living creatures because someone can't accept the inevitable.
I realised that IDEs were slowly turning me into a lazy programmer, and with all the fancy tools for searching / locating and hyperlinking I was actually not getting to know the code base. By forcing myself to use emacs and the command line I found myself getting to know the code more intimately and actually learning the language much better. I found that with IDEs highlighting my mistakes, I was constantly making the same mistakes because I would correct them out of habit rather than learning not to make them in the first place. I still use an IDE when I need to get an overview of the code base, or sometimes for intense debugging sessions, but I use them more as a supplement than a main tool and it's completely changed the way I code for the better.