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prakhar1989 / richhickey.md
Last active January 30, 2025 06:39 — forked from stijlist/gist:bb932fb93e22fe6260b2
richhickey.md

Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Rich Hickey • 3 years ago

Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here.

A wide variety of experiences might lead to well-roundedness, but not to greatness, nor even goodness. By constantly switching from one thing to another you are always reaching above your comfort zone, yes, but doing so by resetting your skill and knowledge level to zero.

Mastery comes from a combination of at least several of the following:

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jsstrn / FirstFactorial.cpp
Last active September 14, 2023 18:56
These are my solutions to the Coderbyte challenges written in C++
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int FirstFactorial(int num) {
// set the limit to the number provided
int limit = num;
for (int i = 1; i < limit; ++i) {
num = num * i;
}
return num;

A good commit message looks like this:

Header line: explaining the commit in one line

Body of commit message is a few lines of text, explaining things
in more detail, possibly giving some background about the issue
being fixed, etc etc.

The body of the commit message can be several paragraphs, and
please do proper word-wrap and keep columns shorter than about