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Jeff Atwood
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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Indoor enthusiast. Co-founder stackoverflow.com / discourse.org. Let’s be kind to each other. I am no longer on twitter. Find me @[email protected]
- I Fight For The Users: a post in support of migrating away from Twitter and generating funds for The Trevor Project. Please bid as you see fit for a good cause! infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/… -- this will be my last post on Twitter 👋
- Queue is pronounced "Q" followed by four letters that are silently waiting their turn.
- The web browser is the single greatest software application ever written. It's not even close.
- There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
- Of all the technical debt you can incur, the worst in my experience is bad names -- for database columns, variables, functions, etc. Fix those IMMEDIATELY before they metastasize all over your codebase and become extremely painful to fix later.. and they always do.
- If you want to start a company because it sounds like a nifty way to make money, you are wasting your time. Start a company because you have this idea that is just eating you alive inside and you have to get it out into the world for the pure satisfaction of making it happen.
