Software engineers should write

Re:Software engineers should write by joeblau on Monday December 29, 2014 @01:59PM (#8811186)

I write a blog[1] and I try to add good documentation to my open source project[2], but I recognize that I'm in the minority. One benefit I get from writing, even though I don't get a lot of readers, is thought refinement. I usually send my blog posts to friends and family for help on word choice and better delivery. Even though Steve Jobs said people don't read, I think reading and writing are critical because you don't always have a camera or a microphone to get your message across.

[1] - https://blog.joeblau.com/

[2] - https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io

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Re:Software engineers should write by k-mcgrady on Monday December 29, 2014 @04:21PM (#8811864)

>> "Even though Steve Jobs said people don't read"

Source on this? As a general statement that sounds kind of ridiculous. I would have thought people are reading more than ever considering how much of the internet is text. Also a little strange considering Apple runs a bookstore.

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Re:Software engineers should write by joeblau on Monday December 29, 2014 @06:40PM (#8812482)

It was from the New York Times [1] they asked Steve about the Kindle reader.

> “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”

[1] - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/the-passion-of-stev...

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Re:Software engineers should write by k-mcgrady on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @06:03AM (#8814107)

So it seems like he meant books specifically. Still strange considering he then opened iBooks but I guess this was a case of Apple being on the back foot.

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Re:Software engineers should write by mirkoadari on Monday December 29, 2014 @02:34PM (#8811372)

Wow, gitignore is an OSS project?! Didn't know this. Are you looking for collaborators? Love your project and have been looking for something to tinker with on free time. Kudos for great work!

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Re:Software engineers should write by joeblau on Monday December 29, 2014 @06:48PM (#8812499)

The gitignore.io site is OSS as well as the gitignore template list maintained by GitHub. If you want to collaborate that would be cool, although there isn't much the site does :). All I've been doing recently is merging pull requests and updating submodule.

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