Mad Ned: the two and done rule
The whole memo is well worth reading, but this bit stood out: I’ve saved my favorite piece of advice to the end. The “Two-And-Done” Rule… Read More »Mad Ned: the two and done rule
The whole memo is well worth reading, but this bit stood out: I’ve saved my favorite piece of advice to the end. The “Two-And-Done” Rule… Read More »Mad Ned: the two and done rule
It makes sense that one of the jobs most amenable to automation by AI must be computer programming itself. For all their complicated (as opposed… Read More »OpenAI Codex; or, why you might not want to go all in on becoming a full-stack developer
More from Allen Downey (full version – recommended – here). A free license is not just a different way to distribute the same product; a… Read More »Allen Downey on the cool things about free books (2)
I love this story. Millions of people have learnt to program in Python using Think Python and its derivatives… not bad for a book that… Read More »Allen Downey on the cool things about free books (1)
Bikeshedding is this idea that if you have a tremendously complicated project such as a nuclear power station nobody wants to have an opinion on… Read More »Bikeshedding, code-narratology and teamwork