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A Guide To Human-Centric Software Engineering. Now on Amazon -> bit.ly/3Ug1I31
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Code Is for Humans retweeted
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Here they come 🪲🪲🪲🪲👈🏻🤣
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We have all been there 😂👇🏻
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"The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take." - Roy Carlson
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"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." - Edward V.Berad
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Every complex problem has a solution which is simple, direct, plausible—and wrong. —H. L. Mencken
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"It takes a particular kind of person to stay with the [programming] profession [..] High tolerance for failure. Failure inducing a sense of intrigue. A rush of pleasure when something works. This special sort of drive can overcome anyone." – Ellen Ullman
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"The secret to optimization is changing the problem to make it easier to optimize" – John Carmack
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Software spreads like a virus, and any software org needs an immune system to avoid getting infected with every widely used software out there, much of which isn't good for its needs - or, quite often, is basically good for nothing. Centralized infrastructure is key to immunity
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In code and in many kinds of text, a large part of readability is the ability to not read most of it, to quickly learn where to look and what to skip. A big point of structured programming or modules is the not-read ability they provide
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Bugs blamed on "Human error" are nearly always design error.
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“Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.” – Cory House
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“Java is to JavaScript what car is to Carpet.” – Chris Heilmann
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“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” ― Martin Fowler
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“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live” ― John Woods
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“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” ― Harold Abelson, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
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"Programs are meant to be read… computer-program source code is for people, not computers. Computers don't care" -- Bernie Cosell
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"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." --Martin Fowler
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo DaVinci
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