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Re:The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer: Laziness, Impati... by jfoutz on Friday June 26, 2015 @09:23PM (#9788686)
Beware false laziness. Slamming out a 500 character command line to build something is ok for a little while, but if it ever falls out of history, you're doomed. Write the Makefile and expend less energy overall.
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Re:The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer: Laziness, Impati... by seanp2k2 on Friday June 26, 2015 @11:07PM (#9788943)
Why not just copy/paste that into a .sh, put #!/bin/bash at the top, check it into source control, and call it good enough for now? I guess they call that a "Dockerfile" these days :)
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Re:The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer: Laziness, Impati... by sdenton4 on Friday June 26, 2015 @11:46PM (#9789020)
True laziness is building your own linux kernel because the length of your command line flags overran the limit allowed by the OS.
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Re:The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer: Laziness, Impati... by tormeh on Saturday June 27, 2015 @02:18AM (#9789297)
I, uh, don't think laziness is the right word.
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Re:The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer: Laziness, Impati... by degenerate on Saturday June 27, 2015 @09:17AM (#9790043)
I think he misspelled MAXIMUM OCD
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Re:The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer: Laziness, Impati... by Jweb_Guru on Saturday June 27, 2015 @12:04PM (#9790560)
I do that all the time.
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Re:The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer: Laziness, Impati... by ngoldbaum on Friday June 26, 2015 @11:08PM (#9788946)
The true lazy person starts with a cookie-cutter template whenever they start a new project. It helps when the path of least resistance is also the best practice.
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Re:The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer: Laziness, Impati... by ddrum001 on Saturday June 27, 2015 @11:33AM (#9790446)
...or just use a language where a cookie cutter isn't needed e.g. macros in Clojure
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Re:The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer: Laziness, Impati... by djdjgd on Friday June 26, 2015 @11:13PM (#9788958)
echo !! > build.sh
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