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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:

class Tweet < ActiveRecord::Base
def self.client
client = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
config.consumer_key = ENV['TWITTER_KEY']
config.consumer_secret = ENV['TWITTER_SECRET']
end
client
end
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dpaola2 / jarvis_controller.js
Created March 17, 2014 22:03
jarvis controller
function JarvisController ($scope, $http) {
$scope.newRecognition = function() {
var r = new webkitSpeechRecognition();
r.lang = "en";
r.continuous = false;
r.onerror = function(error) {
console.log(error);
var stop = false;
var message = false;
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dpaola2 / gist:9609315
Created March 17, 2014 22:02
jarvis plugin
function WeatherService($http) {
this.name = "WeatherService";
this.responds_to = ["current_weather"];
this.send = function(intent) {
if (intent == "current_weather") {
return "cloudy with a chance of rain";
} else {
return "I don't understand";
}
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dpaola2 / keybase.md
Created March 17, 2014 21:03
keybase verification

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dpaola2 / operationengine.py
Created July 16, 2012 23:34 — forked from inportb/operationengine.py
operational composition and transformation in Python
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
## Copyright (C) 2011 by Jiang Yio <http://inportb.com/>
## The latest code is available at <https://gist.github.com/962122>
##
## Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
## of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
## in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
## to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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dpaola2 / passages_spec.rb
Created June 14, 2012 19:54 — forked from unobliged/phs
passages helper spec
require 'spec_helper'
describe PassagesHelper do
describe "#unique_words" do
let(:passage) { FactoryGirl.create(:passage) }
passage.title.should eq("testFG")
end
end
rake task:
passages.each do |passage|
words = deduplicate(passage)
words.each do |word|
Redis.set(word, retrieve_definition(word))
end
end
<table class="table table-striped">
<thead>
<th width="80px;">Action</th>
<th>Task Details</th>
<th>Due</th>
<th>Status</th>
require "./spec/spec_helper"
describe User do
describe "#generate_api_key!" do
fixtures :users