Your Code Sucks - Girl Developer
tags: lessons, code, programming, reading
the only person’s code that sucks is my own, and the reason why it sucks is I just haven’t learned how to make it better yet.
How I lost my faith (very long) - comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups
tags: lisp, python, code, programming, software
I can’t really go into many specifics about what happened at Google because of confidentiality, but the upshot was this: I saw, pretty much for the first time in my life, people being as productive and more in other languages as I was in Lisp. What’s more, once I got knocked off my high horse (they had to knock me more than once – if anyone from Google is reading this, I’m sorry) and actually bothered to really study some of these other languges I found myself suddenly becoming more productive in other languages than I was in Lisp. For example, my language of choice for doing Web development now is Python.
SuperCollider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
tags: algorithms, programming, research
an efficient and expressive dynamic programming language which makes it an interesting framework for acoustic research, algorithmic music and interactive programming.
Those Gray Beard Hackers And Their Tall Stories | jacquesmattheij.com
tags: story, programming, advice, software
Looking back at that time, the restrictions of the environment are the biggest single factor in bringing out the best in the people that worked with computers back then. Think of your programming career as one endless code-golf competition trying to find a way to get both your data and your code in memory at the same time
… when I finally did land my coder job that I was amazed that people paid me for something that I would have gladly done for free
Creativity knows no limits in a restricted environment. But productivity does.
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tags: rms, life, fsf, freedom, work, software
Of course, the best thing about working for the FSF is working for Richard Stallman. It is rare to find someone who puts an ethical cause ahead of everything else in their life. Can you think of anyone like that? I’m grateful for his ethical leadership, and hope one day to see him truly receive the recognition he deserves, for the freedom movement he launched.