Degrees of Design

“What we meant by that was when you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple with all these simple solutions, you don’t really understand the complexity of the problem. And your solutions are way too oversimplified, and they don’t work. Then you get into the problem, and you [...]

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Somewhere Between Vim and Emacs There is a Great Text Editor

Or: Yes, I’m The 300th Person To Write This Blog Post.
A year and a half ago, I abandoned Visual Studio to try to use the two most popular code editors: Vim and Emacs. Both of them have their advantages, but fall short of being the perfect editor.
Vim
The first coder’s text editor I used was Vim. [...]

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Report Everything

“If you’re doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid — not only what you think is right about it. Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them.”
~ Richard Feynman, “Cargo Cult Science”
A lesson that workers of all disciplines should heed.
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