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Commented Mar 30, 2012 on Visualizing Code to Fail Faster at Coding Horror
Visualizing Code to Fail Faster
In What You Can't See You Can't Get I mentioned in passing how frustrated I was that the state of the art in code editors and IDE has advanced so little since 2003. A number of commenters pointed out the amazing Bret Victor talk Inventing on Principle. I hadn't seen this, but thanks for mention...
Google should acqhire this, and roll it in to Chrome's View Source and Developer Tools.
Commented Mar 26, 2012 on What You Can't See You Can't Get at Coding Horror
What You Can't See You Can't Get
I suppose What You See Is What You Get has its place, but as an OCD addled programmer, I have a problem with WYSIWYG as a one size fits all solution. Whether it's invisible white space, or invisible formatting tags, it's been my experience that forcing people to work with invisible things they ...
If you want to see forum chaos in a programmer community, see http://www.autohotkey.com/forum . I'm been trying to use AutoHotKey for a new project, and it's maddening how many cool scripts there are that solve bits of my problem, but they are impossible to find in the forum, and you never know whether you're looking at the latest version. They don't have libraries, they don't have a wiki, they just have a forum. It sucks because the platform is extremely powerful, if you can learn its capabilities.
Commented Oct 12, 2011 on The Gamification at Coding Horror
The Gamification
When Joel Spolsky and I set out to design the Stack Exchange Q&A engine in 2008 – then known as Stack Overflow – we borrowed liberally and unapologetically from any online system that we felt worked. Some of our notable influences included: Reddit and Digg voting Xbox 360 achievements Wikiped...
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