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Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Rich Hickey • 3 years ago

Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here.

A wide variety of experiences might lead to well-roundedness, but not to greatness, nor even goodness. By constantly switching from one thing to another you are always reaching above your comfort zone, yes, but doing so by resetting your skill and knowledge level to zero.

Mastery comes from a combination of at least several of the following:

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type ApacheLogRecord struct {
	http.ResponseWriter

	ip                    string
	time                  time.Time
	method, uri, protocol string
	status                int
	responseBytes         int64
	elapsedTime           time.Duration
}

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Things that programmers don't know but should

(A book that I might eventually write!)

Gary Bernhardt

I imagine each of these chapters being about 2,000 words, making the whole book about the size of a small novel. For comparison, articles in large papers like the New York Times average about 1,200 words. Each topic gets whatever level of detail I can fit into that space. For simple topics, that's a lot of space: I can probably walk through a very basic, but working, implementation of the IP protocol.

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Colors in terminal

It's a common confusion about terminal colors... Actually we have this:

• plain ascii
• ansi escape codes (16 color codes with bold/italic and background)
• 256 color palette (216 colors+16gray + ansi) (colors are 24bit)
• 24bit true color (888 colors (aka 16 milion))

  printf "\x1b[${bg};2;${red};${green};${blue}m\n"