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I prefer stronger words, such as "driven", "determined", and "tenacious".
"Passion" sounds like you should be leaping around in a field of flowers, petting unicorns, or trying on a pretty new spring dress.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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or the proverbial sword and mounds of flesh...
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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imho: to frame the question of what programmer "greatness" is in terms of "passion," is to bootleg a confusion of productivity (a sine qua non) and temperament.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I prefer developers who can turn the passion on and off at will.
When I'm coding, I flip the switch and become passionate about the language & platform I'm working in. That massively helps me achieve flow.
When I'm early in a project doing tech evaluations before any real coding has started, I flip it off and become cold and dispassionate about tech in general. That helps me make rapid decisions about cutting and running when a tech starts to smell.
It has side effects, though. When I'm in cold mode (like I am right now in my current project), I find that I have zero drive to work on personal projects at home. None of my github repos have been touched in 2 months+. When I'm in hot mode, my social life suffers (even more than usual) and I essentially become a hermit.
Looks like this project will have bad timing. I'll be getting into the coding portion just as the holidays start. Which means I'll be in passionate/hot/all-I-want-is-to-code mode when I have to go spend time with other people. Ew.
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All the author had to do was write: "Being passionate does not mean you have to work long hours." Instead he redefined the word "passionate" in the most negative way possible and then proceeded to give examples supporting the common definition in this context (versus the sexual context, which would just be weird.)
For those who are curious, this [article] is an excellent example of a "straw man argument."
modified 2-Sep-16 23:01pm.
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Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner!
TTFN - Kent
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I consider myself to be a passionate developer. That means spending a lot of up front time thinking about the problem before I code it, so that I minimize the long coding hours, because there are a lot of things I'd rather be doing.
I also think a lot about the process. Recently, I wrote a silly little app that pre-populated the JS and HTML stubs of Backbone pages with a few critical values I filled in and registering the pages in the Django/Backbone page init section, because doing that manually for the 20 pages I had to add was such a PITA, not to mention error prone.
And yeah, I looked around for utilities that did that, found a few that were unwieldy behemoths, when I what I basically needed was:
- read in the whole file.
- do a recursive string replace of tokenized values in the template.
- write it out with the indicated filename
- update the init.py file.
(But of course I wrote it in C#, hahaha)
Marc
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Downturn in August smaller than expected; may signal start of enterprise migrations. Everyone didn't revert to using Vista?
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Revert ? I'm Still using it.
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Microsoft's browsers continued to hemorrhage users last month, with no sign that the bleeding will stop. "You're gonna miss me when I'm gone"
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Perhaps if they allowed the toolbar to be customized.
(And at least made the logo/icon entirely different. That is was remarkably unstable until recently didn't help any. It's almost like Microsoft management doesn't know what they're doing.)
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Starting today from $7 per user/per month, businesses of any size can purchase Windows 10 Enterprise E3 through the CSP program and take advantage of enterprise-grade security and management functionality. "Feedback from customers and partners is at the core of how we build Windows.", ah, they crack me up
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Feedback from customers and partners is at the core of how we build Windows.", ah, they crack me up
If by "feedback" you mean things customers say that we agree with.
(No snark. Unfortunately, Apple, Google and Linux are worse.)
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Quote: Unfortunately, Apple, Google and Linux are worse. 'Struth, at least on the first two. Apple "knows better" than their users, so they don't seem to put any interest in feedback. And Google... I don't even have an idea of how you could provide any (it's not like they monitor their forums or anything). I'd like to think that some of the Linux distorts accept feedback, but I have no experience there.
TTFN - Kent
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Apple is making a few small tweaks to its App Store Review Guidelines for developers ahead of the release of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra this fall. I guess they'll stop bragging about how many apps are in the store then?
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Then they'll be down to what, 100 apps or so?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It has often been said (by me) that a professional software developer never stops learning. "Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est."
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It has often been said (by me) that you learn something new every day -- if some day you don't learn something; you're probably dead.
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What if one learns, at the end of the day, that they didn't learn anything all day?
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Then one should at least find out what one didn't learn that day.
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Or what if one learns, at the end of the day, that what they learned from the book/article they just read, or class they just took, is completely useless?
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Nothing in the original proposition addressed the actual utility of the information consumed.
There - now, thanks to posting on CP you've made days quota!
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