TITLE: Quick Hits
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: May 17, 2007 11:08 AM
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Over the last couple of months, I've been collecting some
good lines and links to the articles that contain them.
Some of these may show up someday in something I write,
but it seems a shame to have them lie fallow in a text
file until then. Besides, my blog often serves as my
commonplace book
these days. All of these pieces are worth reading for more
than the quote.
If the code cannot express itself, then
a comment might be acceptable. If the code does
not express itself, the code should be fixed.
-- Tim Ottinger,
Comments Again
In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default!
-- Tim Sweeney of Epic Games,
The Next Mainstream Programming Language:
A Game Developer's Perspective, an invited talk at ACM POPL'06
(full slides in
PDF)
When you are tempted to encode data structure in a variable
name (e.g. Hungarian notation), you need to create an object
that hides that structure and exposes behavior.
-- Uncle Bob Martin
The Hungarian Abhorrence Principle
Lisp... if you don't like the syntax, write your own.
-- Gordon Weakliem,
Hashed Thoughts,
on simple syntax for complex data structures
Pairing is a practice that has (IIRC) at least five
different benefits. If you can't pair, then you need to find
somewhere else in the process to put those benefits.
-- John Roth, on the XP mailing list
Fumbling with the gear is the telltale sign that I'm out
of practice with my craft. ... And day by day, the enjoyment
of the craft is replaced by the tedium of work.
-- Mike Clark,
Practice
So when you get rejected by investors, don't think "we
suck," but instead ask "do we suck?" Rejection is a question,
not an answer.
-- Paul Graham,
The Hacker's Guide to Investors
Practice. Question rejection.
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