Thread: Focus on decisions, not tasks

Focus on decisions, not tasks (technicalwriting.dev)

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Focus on decisions, not tasks (technicalwriting.dev)

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The Pragmatics of TDD (blog.8thlight.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by janogonzalez Mar 7, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Code Reads - "receive a beautiful technical review document" (ashkenas.com)

L 2 pts 2 comments by darrenbday Mar 13, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

"I'm offering a new product/service, the Code Read — you send me a piece (small or large) of your company's codebase, and I'll read through it with an eye towards correctness, code organization and style, common security flaws, patterns, and clarity. When finished, you'll receive a beautiful technic...

The Repository Pattern (blog.8thlight.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by tundal45 Mar 25, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

80 chars per line is great (wrongsideofmemphis.com)

L 9 pts 7 comments by jcs Mar 25, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Learning from a dropped refactoring – The Real Adam (therealadam.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by tundal45 May 3, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Questions to ask your future web dev employer (medium.com)

L 6 pts 2 comments by edward May 21, 2013 jobpracticesprogrammingweb Web Development Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Checking Your Derivers’ License - BSD License Problems (spin.atomicobject.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by silentbicycle May 31, 2013 lawpracticesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Tech Safety (industriallogic.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by edward Jun 21, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

What is Programmer Anarchy and does it have a future? (martinjeeblog.wordpress.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by cjh Jul 17, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Social Anarchy in Software Development (barunsingh.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by LeahNeukirchen Jul 18, 2013 philosophypracticesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Being defensive when developing automated systems

L 9 pts 2 comments by jcs Jul 18, 2013 practicesprogrammingrant Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Twilio is currently having a [problem](http://status.twilio.com/services/account-portal) double-billing customers and then automatically shutting them off because their balances are too low. My own account had its credit card charged 3 times this morning for the same amount. Earlier this week Go...

Dishonest comments (wildlyinaccurate.com)

L 5 pts 7 comments by wildlyinaccurate Aug 7, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Code culture problem (fraustollc.com)

L 4 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Sep 5, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Effective ML (vimeo.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by SeanTAllen Oct 12, 2013 practicesprogrammingvideo Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

The code documentation fallacy (voices.canonical.com)

L 4 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Oct 17, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

"I hired a developer on Elance to build my first iPhone app, this was my experience" (thenextweb.com)

L 3 pts 1 comments by journeysquid Nov 4, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS Productivity / Career / Business thread

The Narcissism of Small Code Differences (2008) (raganwald.com)

L 6 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Nov 12, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

I don't care about your code challenge (blog.mattbasta.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Nov 23, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

A new way to organize programs (akkartik.name)

L 3 pts 0 comments by akkartik Nov 25, 2013 practicesprogrammingshow Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

No, I will not hack on your codebase for free under the pretext of it being a "technical interview" (hownottohireadeveloper.blogspot.co.uk)

L 3 pts 1 comments by journeysquid Dec 4, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

A little hyperbolic, but a well-made point otherwise.

Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy? (mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk)

L 2 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Dec 13, 2013 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Portable, Shareable Application Development Environments (glenngillen.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by glenngillen Jan 8, 2014 practicesprogrammingvirtualization Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

PLOS Biology: Best Practices for Scientific Computing (plosbiology.org)

L 2 pts 0 comments by ajdecon Jan 9, 2014 practicesscience Science / Math / Physics Productivity / Career / Business thread

Code Review in Four Steps (blog.bignerdranch.com)

L 6 pts 0 comments by wallace Jan 16, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Writing LaTeX for the Kindle (todd-davies.github.io)

L 5 pts 0 comments by Todd Jan 20, 2014 designpracticesprogramming Programming (General)Design / UX / Visualization Productivity / Career / Business thread

Code is not Literature (gigamonkeys.com)

L 18 pts 5 comments by antifuchs Jan 20, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Functional Tests As A Tree Of Continuations (evanmiller.org)

L 7 pts 2 comments by vjoel Jan 24, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

Your Progress As A Programmer Is All Up To You (thecodist.com)

L 5 pts 0 comments by journeysquid Feb 9, 2014 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread