22 Sep 2020
(4/4) Tackling problems that are interesting to solve rather than the ones which serve a market need is the number one reason for failure (noted in 42% of cases according to CB Insight failure post-mortem analysis).
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9 Sep 2020
(1/2) Today's #ThoughtsOnProgramming features American computer scientist and #C programming language inventor #DennisRitchie who designed and developed together with Ken Thompson at @belllabs the first version of the #UNIX operating system.
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6 Aug 2020
Today's #ThoughtsOnProgramming features US American computer scientist Jon Postel who is best known for his contributions as editor of the RFC document series and the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
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28 Jul 2020
(1/2) Simplicity in code is not a contribution to the future! We don't do it because we're assuming a future opportunity for code-reuse, or because we want it to look prettier at a code review, or because we want to make it simpler to modify.
#ThoughtsOnProgramming #CleanCode
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1 Jul 2020
Today's issue of #ThoughtsOnProgramming features "Y Combinator's co-founder @paulg with a piece of advice from his essay "Great Hackers" that we should spend more time choosing the right problem to solve before jumping into implementation. (2/2)
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26 Jun 2020
Code for humans, not machines! We just can't overemphasis enough the importance of writing clean, comprehensive and maintainable code.
Today's #ThoughtsOnProgramming features @housecor with a superb analogy on why your code should tell a story and be self-explanatory.
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25 Jun 2020
(1/3) It doesn't take a lot to get short scripts and functions up and running. However, as your code-base becomes larger and more complex errors will creep in inevitably.
#TDD #TestDrivenDevelopment #ThoughtsOnProgramming
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23 Jun 2020
🤖 Today's issue of #ThoughtsOnProgramming features British mathematician, computer scientist and father of #ArtificialIntelligence #AlanTuring, who would have turned 108 today.
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22 Jun 2020
Happy Monday 👋, today's issue of #ThoughtsOnProgramming features #KonradZuse, the inventor of the first programmable computer "Z3", who would have turned 110 today on this very 22nd of June.
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19 Jun 2020
👾 Any run-of-the-mill idiot can produce code that a machine can execute, but good programmers write code that mortals can actually comprehend and reason about. Today's #ThoughtsOnProgramming features Douglas Crockford, with a reminder on why style matters.
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18 Jun 2020
(2/2) Today's issue of #ThoughtsOnProgramming features Edsger W. Dijkstra with a somewhat polemical but true statement which serves as a good reminder why one should identify and mitigate risks through systematic testing strategies.
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17 Jun 2020
Today's issue of #ThoughtsOnProgramming features Ralph Johnson, co-author of the #DesignPattern bible with a friendly reminder on the importance of creating #software which is useful to specific users for achieving a defined goal effectively.
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15 Jun 2020
Happy Monday 🎉, today's #ThoughtsOnProgramming features #LinusTorvalds with a controversial quote on #GNOME's lack of usability back in the early 2000s when the project decided to remove a couple of features to provide an enhanced base #UserExperience.
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10 Jun 2020
🤔 How would modern user interfaces look like without copy & paste? Today's issue of #ThoughtsOnProgramming features Larry Tesler, who invented the cut, copy and paste commands during his time at Xerox PARC.
#OurThinking #UI #UserInterface #UIDesign #UX #UserExperience #UXDesign
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9 Jun 2020
👾 Today's issue of #ThoughtsOnProgramming features @PragmaticAndy, author of the "The Pragmatic Programmer", a timeless introduction on how to contribute maintainable code on teams.
#TestDrivenDevelopment #ContinuousDelivery #OurThinking #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareTesting
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8 Jun 2020
🎂 Today's #ThoughtsOnProgramming features British engineer and computer scientist Sir @timberners_lee who is best known as the inventor of the #WorldWideWeb. And who by the way turns 65 today, Happy Birthday🥳!
#ContinuousDelivery #ITFailure #Agile #DigitalTransformation
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5 Jun 2020
👩🏻💻 Today's #ThoughtsOnProgramming features Grace Hopper, United States Navy rear admiral and computer scientist, who was among many other things, one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer.
#OurThinking #WomenInComputing #WomenWhoCode #WomenInTech #Programming
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4 Jun 2020
⚡️ Today's issue of #ThoughtsOnProgramming features Mr. #ContinuousDelivery @davefarley77, who was an early adopter of #agile development techniques and TDD advocate. He's the author of the "Continuous Delivery" bible and shares his thoughts on his personal blog.
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3 Jun 2020
⚡️ Today's #ThoughtsOnProgramming features Gordon Bell, who designed the I/O subsystem of the PDP-1 while working as an electrical engineer at the Digital Equipment Corporation.
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