Notes on a blog post - The Greatest Compliment A Developer Can Receive


	Notes on a blog post - The Greatest Compliment A Developer Can Receive
mohammadi
10-8-2007 9:26 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e35a93c0-5e22-41aa-96ae-359a6dbcba18/A9B3AA3F-686C-408C-9779-5508BB1C8C33/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://haacked.com/archive/2007/10/07/the-greatest-compliment-a-developer-can-receive.aspx" href="http://haacked.com/archive/2007/10/07/the-greatest-compliment-a-developer-can-receive.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">haacked.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://haacked.com/archive/2007/10/07/the-greatest-compliment-a-developer-can-receive.aspx">the dirty little secret about being a software developer</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://haacked.com/archive/2007/10/07/the-greatest-compliment-a-developer-can-receive.aspx">No matter how good the code you write is, it’s crap to another developer.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://haacked.com/archive/2007/10/07/the-greatest-compliment-a-developer-can-receive.aspx">Doesn’t matter if both John Carmack and Linus Torvalds bow down in respect every time the code is shown on the screen.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_D._Carmack&oldid=162929610" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_D._Carmack&oldid=162929610" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_D._Carmack&oldid=162929610"><TH class="fn" colspan="2">John Carmack</TH></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_D._Carmack&oldid=162929610"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/726562FA-0DE8-458D-8DFF-DFB7DF0407DE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_D._Carmack&oldid=162929610">programmer of the highly successful id computer games <I><A title="Commander Keen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen">Commander Keen</A></I>, <I><A title="Wolfenstein 3D" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D">Wolfenstein 3D</A></I>, <I><A title="Doom (video game)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_%28video_game%29">Doom</A></I>, <I><A title="Quake" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake">Quake</A></I>, and subsequent sequels to <I>Doom</I> and <I>Quake</I>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_D._Carmack&oldid=162929610">also a <A title="Rocketry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketry">rocketry</A> enthusiast and the founder and lead engineer of <A title="Armadillo Aerospace" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_Aerospace">Armadillo Aerospace</A></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://haacked.com/archive/2007/10/07/the-greatest-compliment-a-developer-can-receive.aspx" href="http://haacked.com/archive/2007/10/07/the-greatest-compliment-a-developer-can-receive.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">haacked.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://haacked.com/archive/2007/10/07/the-greatest-compliment-a-developer-can-receive.aspx">string concatenation</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://haacked.com/archive/2007/10/07/the-greatest-compliment-a-developer-can-receive.aspx">rather than using a <CODE>StringBuilder</CODE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://haacked.com/archive/2007/10/07/the-greatest-compliment-a-developer-can-receive.aspx">a conscious decision because on average that method only concatenates three or four strings together</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://haacked.com/archive/2007/10/07/the-greatest-compliment-a-developer-can-receive.aspx">You used a switch statement</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://haacked.com/archive/2007/10/07/the-greatest-compliment-a-developer-can-receive.aspx">supposed to replace that with the State or Strategy pattern</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.google.com/search?q=State+or+Strategy+pattern&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enIR176IR176&aq=t" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=State+or+Strategy+pattern&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enIR176IR176&aq=t" style="font-size: 11px;">www.google.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.google.com/search?q=State+or+Strategy+pattern&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enIR176IR176&aq=t"><SPAN class="a">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<B>Strategy</B>_<B>pattern</B> - 38k - </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.google.com/search?q=State+or+Strategy+pattern&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enIR176IR176&aq=t"><SPAN class="a">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<B>State</B>_<B>pattern</B> - 34k - </SPAN></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; 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