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Coding Horror: So You Don't Want to be a Programmer After All
I get a surprising number of emails from career programmers who have spent some time in the profession and eventually decided it just isn't for them. Most recently this:
I finished a computer science degree last year, worked about a year in the Jav...
Dateline: 2013-04-29 5:01pm -07:00T (1358 words)
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Coding Horror: Civilized Discourse Construction Kit
Occasionally, startups will ask me for advice. That's a shame, because I am a terrible person to ask for advice. The conversation usually goes something like this:
We'd love to get your expert advice on our thing.
I probably don't use your thing. ...
Dateline: 2013-04-07 4:31am -07:00T (943 words)
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Coding Horror: The End of Ragequitting
When Joel Spolsky, my business partner on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, asked me what I wanted to do after I left Stack Exchange, I distinctly remember mentioning Aaron Swartz. That's what Aaron was to us hackers: an exemplar of the noble, selfless...
Dateline: 2013-03-24 4:31am -07:00T (1085 words)
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Coding Horror: Why Ruby?
I've been a Microsoft developer for decades now. I weaned myself on various flavors of home computer Microsoft Basic, and I got my first paid programming gigs in Microsoft FoxPro, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Visual Basic. I have seen the future of p...
Dateline: 2013-03-22 2:31am -07:00T (277 words)
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