Re:The tyranny of the Hollerith punched card
by marssaxman on Monday June 06, 2016 @11:55AM
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Yes, widescreen monitors are great - now I can view three editors side by side at standard line length!
I used to work at a dysfunctional startup which could not agree on any sort of coding style conventions, and one of the other devs would just zoom his Visual Studio window fullscreen and type, type, type until he bounced off the far edge, no sense of column width at all. His code was excruciatingly terrible for a lot of reasons, but at least it was easy to spot since it looked just as messy as its structure.
I used to work at a dysfunctional startup which could not agree on any sort of coding style conventions, and one of the other devs would just zoom his Visual Studio window fullscreen and type, type, type until he bounced off the far edge, no sense of column width at all. His code was excruciatingly terrible for a lot of reasons, but at least it was easy to spot since it looked just as messy as its structure.