Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other knowledge workers?

Re:Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other kn... by startupdiscuss on Saturday May 05, 2018 @02:59PM (#17003214)

Oh, it is the same for programmers!

As soon as we have an idea we immediately open up an IDE, and then get a GIT repository going, and get Yarn to prepare all the libraries we need, and get a quick little back end database api set up, and then a quick little front end framework and then we are...

finally ready to start experimenting.

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Re:Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other kn... by eropple on Saturday May 05, 2018 @04:08PM (#17003530)

You can, for the most part, do that once and never again, though.

`cp -R` is a thing.

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Re:Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other kn... by 1wheel on Saturday May 05, 2018 @05:51PM (#17004059)

I highly recommend setting something like this up. So nice to type a command and be ready to start sketching 3s later. Mine:

` alias initblock='function __initblock() { mkdir $1 && cd $1 && degit 1wheel/d3-init && gistup -m $1 --private --no-open && subl . && hot-server; unset -f __initblock; }; __initblock' `

https://github.com/1wheel/d3-init

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Re:Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other kn... by Drdrdrq on Saturday May 05, 2018 @04:29PM (#17003616)

I find setting up the environment a nice warm up routine that I wouldn't want to skip. Also, it takes just a few minutes, which is probably less than searching for that "template project" that I prepared those weeks / months ago. I guess everyone has their own creative process... :)

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Re:Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other kn... by mindcrime on Saturday May 05, 2018 @07:48PM (#17004507)

    git clone https://github.com/myaccount/proj_template.git newproj

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Re:Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other kn... by imhoguy on Saturday May 05, 2018 @04:22PM (#17003585)

Not in "modern" web dev where a cool lib/tool/stack released today gets deprecated or not-cool tomorrow ;)

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Re:Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other kn... by eropple on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @03:47PM (#17033295)

I've been using the same modern dev stack for HTML5/JS for two years now.

I've been using permutations on the same dev stack for backend stuff for--well, before I wrote a new one[1], about five years.

This sort of middlebrow thing isn't good or helpful.

[1] - https://github.com/modern-project/modern-ruby

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