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Messy Code Is Bad Code
My apartment is a mess. After a party on Saturday there are glasses, pizza boxes, dirty dishes, empty bottles and bottle caps scattered in every corner of my place. Some might ask: “Why don’t you just clean it?” Well, I’m a procrastinator. As long as Read More...
Your Legacy
I'm sure you want to have a legacy. People will remember you and tell stories about what you did and look back at what code you wrote. Life would be grand, assuming your legacy was good that is. More likely people 10 years down the road will look at your Read More...
Speed Freak
Who has ever met that guy that insisted on writing every piece of code to be as fast as possible? We'll call him the "speed freak". Thankfully, speed freak is less an influence in languages such as Java or C# because there is no low level access to the Read More...
Learn to Love the Wheel
If you already have a wheel, you probably won't try to invent it again. But if you don't have a wheel then you'll see a need for it and try to create one. The thing is, the wheel already exists and you just don't know it yet. In programming, a good example Read More...
One Liners
We've all been there. Whether it's in C++, C#, Java, ASM, which ever it is the temptation exists. Doing as many things as possible in one line of code instead of dutifully expanding it to it's required three or four lines. A C++ example: *( pData ++) Read More...
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