mickeypash

George Hotz Recommended articles

(mostly collected over the last 3-4 streams)

• How to Drop Out by Ran Prieur
• Staring into the Singularity - Yudkowsky
• A General Theory of Collaboration
  • https://youtu.be/lFoVpWkUNnw?t=580
• Stallman (RMS) - On Hacking
• Yudkowsky - Politics is the mind killer

SebastianGrans

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evaera

1. Use descriptive and obvious names.
   • Don't use abbreviations, use full English words. player is better than plr.
   • Name things as directly as possible. wasCalled is better than hasBeenCalled. notify is better than doNotification.
   • Name booleans as if they are yes or no questions. isFirstRun is better than firstRun.
   • Name functions using verb forms: increment is better than plusOne. unzip is better than filesFromZip.
   • Name event handlers to express when they run. onClick is better than click.
   • Put statements and expressions in positive form.
     • isFlying instead of isNotFlying. late intead of notOnTime.
     • Lead with positive conditionals. Avoid if not something then ... else ... end.

• If we only care about the inverse of a variable, turn it into a positive name. missingValue instead of not hasValue.

eliot-akira

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How Software Companies Die
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 - Orson Scott Card

The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and
marketing types - and vice versa.

Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When
you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into