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Practical ways to solve hard problems (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Hacking the Programmer Neurosis

Hacking the programmer neurosis. You have to have that positive reward, otherwise it becomes drudgery. We don't do good work when we're doing that kind of stuff. So you have to get those dobomen hits and all that. It turns out only ten % of the final code was actually hard. The other 90% was bookkeeping, moving it from this data source to that data source,. Making web requests, authentication, something terrible like that... But also sprinkling some funcas that's going to king to keep the dope meant its going "We are monkey brain"

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