George V. Neville-Neil
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Kode Vicious's thoughts on forking, config files, and using internal wikis.
Programming is a creative endeavor, and therefore there is such a thing as coder's block. What does it take to clear the blockage?
With the amount of disk space available to the modern programmer, and the lack of parental supervision in most workplaces, the time for programmers to "clean your room!" and store their checkouts neatly never comes.
While it is true that "programmers aren't English majors," there are many days that I wish they were, or that they knew one and offered to help with their science or math homework in return for some help making themselves better understood.
Dear KV, I've been working with some code that generates massive data sets, and . . . I'm finding that more and more often I have to explain my data to people who are either unwilling to or incapable of understanding the data in a raw format.
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