Amount of energy spent : 1) running a marathon - 15% 2) climbing mt. everest - 50% 3) getting under your desk to connect some cords in the back of a computer - 100%
When shakespeare asked, "to be, or not to be?", he did not provide the answer. but programmers can. the answer is ff. 2b |~ 2b = ff
Programmer : this is git. it tracks collaborative works on projects through a beautiful distributed graph theory tree model. girl : cool. how do we use it? programmer : no idea. just memorize these shell commands and type them to sync up. if you get errors, save your work elsewhere, delete the project, and download a fresh copy.
3 ways developers see the world differently than others. 1) programming is thinking, not typing. 2) counting starts from zero, not one. 3) sleeping with a problem, can actually solve it.
Comments inside a class file /* * you may think you know what the following code does. * but you don't. trust me. * fiddle with it, and you'll spend many a sleepless. * night cursing the moment you thought you'd be clever * enough to "optimize" the code below. * now close this file and go playing with something else. */