dpritchett

Programming as Theory Building

Peter Naur, 1985

(copied from http://alistair.cockburn.us/ASD+book+extract%3A+%22Naur,+Ehn,+Musashi%22)

Introduction

The present discussion is a contribution to the understanding of what programming is. It suggests that programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.

prakhar1989

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:

namuol

rage-quit support for bash

HOW TO INSTALL

Put flip somewhere in your $PATH and chmod a+x it.

Copy fuck into ~/.bashrc.

tlowrimore

<LocationMatch "^/assets/.*$">
  Header unset ETag
  FileETag None

  # RFC says only cache for 1 year
  ExpiresActive On
  ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 year"

  RewriteEngine	On
  RewriteCond	%{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip

bradmontgomery

def manage(management_command, args=None):
    with cd(REMOTE_PROJECT_DIR):
        cmd = "source /path/to/virtualenv/bin/activate && "
        cmd += "python manage.py %s %s" % (management_command, args or '')
        run(cmd)

dpritchett

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
REQUIREMENTS:
    * A Twilio account
    * Python with the twilio library (`pip install twilio`)
    * A purchased phone number on twilio to serve as your "from" number ($1/mo)
    * Some twilio credits to pay for the $.01/msg SMS fees

The python-twilio library uses OS-level environment variables

Janiczek

@_1 = ->

  # sum of multiples of 3 or 5 (not both) under 1K

  answer = 0

  for n in [1...1000]
    if n % 3 == 0 or n % 5 == 0
      answer += n

bradmontgomery

"""
Folding paper in half 50 times is 3/4 of the distance from earth to sun

From:
http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-most-mind-blowing-facts#answer_526501

Thickness of a sheet of paper: 0.1 mm (~0.004 inches)

"""

dpritchett

import feedparser, re    #feedparser available at http://feedparser.org/
def search_fatwallet(keyword):
    fw = feedparser.parse(r'http://feeds.feedburner.com/FatwalletHotDeals')
    for entry in fw.entries:
        if re.search(keyword, entry['title']):
            print entry['title'], '\n', entry['feedburner_origlink']
            print ''

"""			
>>> search_fatwallet('car')

nruth

class Tests
  SUBTESTS = %w(Abstract Decision Quantitative Verbal)
end

describe Tests do

  describe "before assigning @ - " do
    describe "this doesn't work because the loops are all at the same describe level (the befores override one another)" do
      Tests::SUBTESTS.each do |test|
        before(:each) do