How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

Cheeky side note: it'd be nice if the author could program their web server to send the correct character set so that the © symbol doesn't show up as �. It's being served with: Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8 whereas the charset is actually in ISO-8859-1.

Wtf: "Since I have children, I try to spend evenings with them sometimes. The rhythm that works best for me is to work a very long day, sleep in the office or near the office (I have a long commute from home to work) then go home early enough the next day to spend time with my children before they go to bed. I am not comfortable with this, but it is the best compromise I have been able to…

Many of these are pretty good, but on a startup-focused site, I just have to point out this: "It then becomes your job to help the entrepreneur find a reasonable solution which is merely hard and gets most of what they wanted." Many startups are founded by doing something impossible (Google, Apple, Akamai, YouTube, PayPal). Most of the remainder are founded by doing something useless (Twitter, Facebook, del.icio.us, Reddit, etc.) This is for very good reason. If something is neither…

>>But it is really child's play compared to everything else >>that a good programmer must do to make a software system >>that succeeds for both the customer and myriad colleagues >>for whom she is partially responsible. Why the use of the word "she" ? I see a lot of articles written where the undefined person will be a she. I speak french, and "person" is a feminine name, so you can say about a person "she", but why in English…