eliot-akira

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How Software Companies Die
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 - Orson Scott Card

The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and
marketing types - and vice versa.

Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When
you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into

evaera

1. Use descriptive and obvious names.
   • Don't use abbreviations, use full English words. player is better than plr.
   • Name things as directly as possible. wasCalled is better than hasBeenCalled. notify is better than doNotification.
   • Name booleans as if they are yes or no questions. isFirstRun is better than firstRun.
   • Name functions using verb forms: increment is better than plusOne. unzip is better than filesFromZip.
   • Name event handlers to express when they run. onClick is better than click.
   • Put statements and expressions in positive form.
     • isFlying instead of isNotFlying. late intead of notOnTime.
     • Lead with positive conditionals. Avoid if not something then ... else ... end.

• If we only care about the inverse of a variable, turn it into a positive name. missingValue instead of not hasValue.

SebastianGrans

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mickeypash

George Hotz Recommended articles

(mostly collected over the last 3-4 streams)

• How to Drop Out by Ran Prieur
• Staring into the Singularity - Yudkowsky
• A General Theory of Collaboration
  • https://youtu.be/lFoVpWkUNnw?t=580
• Stallman (RMS) - On Hacking
• Yudkowsky - Politics is the mind killer