This anonymous programmer said he was starting to feel guilty about how he quietly turned his whole job into less than two hours of work a week by writing a bunch of scripts. All the work he was ...

His band, the Great Unknowns, once toured with the Indigo Girls. Guvench took a circuitous route to programming ... he had worked for eBay, improving its payment system by rebuilding old code.

To the world at large, computers are scary machines that are impossible to understand, and programmers are the mysterious geniuses who know ... he could add Eliza-grade comments to his code ...

What about other programming languages? And, most importantly, why would swears correlate with high-quality code? The work is ... said. He frequently finds himself swearing at his own code ...

So what does the person everyone thinks of as a programmer's programmer do instead? Torvalds explained: I don't know coding at all anymore. Most of the code ... he's no longer getting his ...

Copy-paste code practices The ... developer B (the receiving programmer) not having all the functionality knowledge or insight into what he or she is using, but if its well written and documented ...

Quincy Larson, a software engineer for online coding tutorial site Free Code ... a programming partner. Larson says one of his biggest mistakes was his lack of focus. In his blog post, he suggests ...