Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “code”

If you tell people that your estimates are higher than expected because you want to do a quality job, some of them will think you’re spending time refactoring and writing tests, and some will think you’re going pixel-by-pixel in Photoshop. Some of them will end up disappointed.

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend

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Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend. “ “Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI...

HUSL - Human-friendly HSL

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Humanizing Peer Reviews

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Why Computer Programmers Should Stop Calling Themselves Engineers - The Atlantic

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Greenwashing , or "green sheen,"[1][2] is a form of spin in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that an organization's products, aims or policies are environmentally friendly.[3] Evidence that an organization is greenwashing often comes from pointing out the spending differences: when significantly more money or time has been spent advertising being "green" , than is actually spent on environmentally sound practices.[4] Greenwashing efforts...

Jeff Atwood: Learning to code is overrated - NY Daily News

nydailynews.com/opinion/jeff-atwood-learning-code-overrated-article-1.2374772

Mayor de Blasio is winning widespread praise for his recent promise that, within 10 years, all of New York City’s public

Paul Ford: What is Code? | Bloomberg

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Structured Typography with Sass Maps

cognition.happycog.com/article/structured-typography-with-sass-maps

Code Climate. Hosted static analysis for Ruby, PHP and JavaScript source code.

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Code Climate hosted software metrics help you ship quality Ruby, PHP and JavaScript code faster. Get control of your technical debt with real time static analysis of your code.