Let me share this tale with you guys, hope you like it as much as I do: It is said that Socrates met a worker who asked: what are you doing good man ? "Don't you see I'm cutting a stone to earn my salary and so I can eat" the worker replied. He moved on and later found another worker questioning the same way as the previous one, he replied "I'm building a wall," continued Socrates finding their way to a third worker, also questioning, the answer was "I'm building a beautiful palace "
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Timothy Baldridge <tbaldri...@gmail.com>wrote: > I doubt I'm unique in this area, but for me, programming is a drug. I have > to code, or the ideas and thoughts build up in my mind. For me, actually > writing down and implementing these is a stress relief. Just ask my parents > when I was growing up, or my wife today. Keep me in a room without a > computer for a week, and I'll start writing code on paper just to get the > thoughts down. > > So I guess you could say I'm an addict. > > Timothy Baldridge > > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Ulises <ulises.cerv...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Code that matters is code that's used by other people. For me personally >> > the ability to share my code with others is the thing that makes >> > programming worth doing in the first place. >> >> This is a rather important point. One of the most asked questions >> (random made up fact) by newcomers to a language is "what can I code? >> what open source programs can I help?". All with the aims of getting >> better acquainted with the language itself and, hopefully, helping >> others. I normally direct people to Advice to Aimless, Excited >> Programmers (http://prog21.dadgum.com/80.html). For those who'd rather >> read the rest of this email, the tl;dr version is: got scratch your >> own itch, you might be building an itch-scratcher for others. >> >> The real question now becomes (at least for me): how do you know when >> an itch is worth scratching? how do you know it's a shared itch? >> >> I've seen more experienced programmers immediately recognise what'd be >> useful at large and what wouldn't (when I presented them with a couple >> "itches" of my own.) Interestingly enough, my judgement didn't >> necessarily coincide with theirs. >> >> Code to scratch your own itch? Sure, that's great. Code to scratch a >> shared itch? Even better. But how do you know which is which? >> >> U >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > -- > “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking > zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C > programs.” > (Robert Firth) > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
