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Re:"Don't quit, even when you know your stuff sucks" - Ira G... by neilk on Saturday May 24, 2008 @04:49PM (#199042)
A sign of this is not loving other people's work. People who love to write, but not to read, produce dreck.

There are lots of people who love to program. But how many people love to read really good source code, or learn from books that teach difficult concepts in programming?

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Re:"Don't quit, even when you know your stuff sucks" - Ira G... by thisisnotmyname on Sunday May 25, 2008 @08:21PM (#199819)
I've been thinking a lot about this lately myself. Where does one go to read "really good" source code?
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Re:"Don't quit, even when you know your stuff sucks" - Ira G... by kalid on Monday May 26, 2008 @02:33AM (#200033)
Great question, I'd like to know too. Sometimes I poke around popular open source projects, like the rails source. Here's how they implemented the syntatic sugar for things like "1.month.from_now":

http://github.com/rails/rails/tree/master/activesupport/lib/...

I recently found http://refactormycode.com/ and it looks interesting for learning, though not comprehensive. Sometimes it's nice to see the "before and after".

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Re:"Don't quit, even when you know your stuff sucks" - Ira G... by andreyf on Monday May 26, 2008 @06:03AM (#200107)
Programming Pearls, by Jon Bentley:

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-ACM-Press/dp/02...

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