Jan 6, 2018

Code Sense and Striving for Simple Design

Early in my career I heard someone say this on the topic of complexity in Software Engineering:

“A good Software Engineer can take a complex problem and build a solution.
A great Software Engineer can take a complex problem and build a simple solution.”

I’ve worked in the world of…

Going through old RSS feeds

I just logged back into my account at The Old Reader after an extraordinarily long time. I used to follow certain blogs a lot around 2007–2011. …

Rules for Computing Happiness

Software:

Use at least two partitions (or hard drives)
Keep the operating system, and programs on the main partition
Store documents, media, and everything else that should survive an O/S reinstall on a separate partition
Automate a backup process for the O/S partition. Ideally this should be on another physical…

Ben Harrison

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