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[womaneng]

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭?

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We try something, note how it turned out, and use the experience to better judge how to move forward in the future. Experience, when we learn from what happened, is our feedback, our method of getting closer and closer to our desired goals.

Without experience, we are just mindless creatures, doing the same things over and over and wondering why we seem to get the same result each time. Without experience, we would never have learned to make fire, find the benefits of the six simple machines, or any of the technology of early agriculture and animal husbandry. One of the greatest gifts humanity has left itself is the accumulated experience of thousands of years of attempts. source : philosiblog.com

[womaneng]

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[lucifer-of-the-rebellion]

Working on an existing code base is really a pain in the ass.

[ecologiadigital]

Of course Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a huge Sufjan Stevens fan. Of course she is. https://t.co/z9rOzgCToY

— Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) March 11, 2018

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[amycodes]

Nextdoor claims this new multi-step system has, so far, reduced instances of racial profiling by 75%. It’s also decreased considerably the number of notes about crime and safety. During testing, the number of crime and safety issue reports abandoned before being published rose by 50%. “It’s a fairly significant dropoff,” said Tolia, “but we believe that, for Nextdoor, quality is more important than quantity.”

Can Software Make You Less Racist?

[jasonseney]

If you love writing code-- really, truly love to write code-- you'll love it enough to write as little of it as possible.

The Best Code is No Code At All (Jeff Atwood)

[coleonsoftware-blog]

Javascript Fibonacci Sequence

I’m currently reading Jeff Atwood’s book Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code. It was only $4.60 on the Kindle marketplace. I see now why the price is so low: The book is his blog, just organized into sections. I’m not complaining, it’s a great book. 

In any case, the book has a section on phone interviewing and which questions to ask. They aren’t stupid questions like “why are manhole covers round”. What does that really tell you about an interviewee anyway? Oh yeah, they can bullshit. I’m not downplaying the grand art of BS’ing, it’s a useful skill, but it doesn’t tell you anything about the interviewee’s programming skills. The seven questions recommended by Mr. Atwood are:

Write a function to reverse a string.

Get the nth fibonacci number.

Print out the grade school multiplication table up to 12x12.

Write a function to sum the integers from a text file. One int per line.

Print out the odd numbers 1 - 99.

Find the largest value in an array of integers.

Format an RGB value as a six digit hexadecimal string.

The one that grabbed me was the fibonacci sequence. It seemed like something every programmer should know, including me. So here it is in javascript:

function getNthFibNum(n) {   var fib = [0, 1];   

   for (var i = 2; i <= n; ++i) {      fib[i] = (fib[i-1] + fib[i-2]);   }   

   return fib[n]; }

More info on the fibonacci sequence.

Okay, readers, what’s the most interesting question to you?