Stories by hwayne
Just started work on this idea: really solid resources that act as cold showers on overhyped programming topics. I'd love it if you all sent in your favorites!
You can improve your programming skills by reading code, but the only code I've seen people study is individual snippets or functions. Not files, much less codebases. So, if I wanted to improve my skills, what **codebases** should I read the source code of?
Here are some specific questions:
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I'm burnt out on podcasts and need something else to watch while cooking, so I figured I'd ask you all for your favorite CS videos. Here are a few of mine:
* [Agile Methods: the Good, the Hype and the Ugly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffkIQrq-m34): Good intro to Agile from an outsider perspec...
I originally shared this just under two years ago, but I want to resubmit it again. Why? Because in the time since the last submission, we went from seven proofs of leftpad to 17! You can now compare Agda's proof style to ACL2, see how to formally prove Java correct, and even read a proof for an FPG...
A killer app is software that's so good it justifies using specific hardware or operating system. By analogy, a killer library is a library so good it justifies using a specific programming language. Two examples:
* **Ruby on Rails** was so good for webdev at the time it justified using Ruby.
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