Jeremy's Blog

I meant to make a note about this when I first saw it in August and forgot. I ran into it again today. A member on Stack Overflow said something which describes some of my productivity problems perfectly:

The irony is that it’s wanting to learn that is distracting me from getting more work done.

I’ll be writing code or solving a problem and will get distracted by some interesting article or code example I’ve bumped into while trying to find the answer to my original problem.

People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power. – Bill Clinton

Say what you want about Bill Clinton, but that one line is probably the single best thing I think I’ve ever heard him say.

Any code that relies strictly on assumptions is not logic. In order for code to work properly, you need documented truths. In the event that you don’t have documented truths, you create them.