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Norman Clarke
Personal blog · njclarke.com/posts · on HN as compayprogrammingweb
Norman Clarke's personal blog at njclarke.com covers programming and web. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Keeping Code Aesthetics in Perspective”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Programmer, web developer and consultant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, working with Ruby, Ruby on Rails and Lua.
Most-linked posts?
- Keeping Code Aesthetics in Perspective2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-30
What Hacker News says?
If you have to ask yourself this question, I think there's a chance you might be suffering from the kind of self-esteem issues that often plague bright people. Take a peek at this Wikipedia article on the "Dunning Kruger Effect" to have an idea of what I'm referring to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect Have you generally been a hard working person your whole life but are now going through a…
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on “Ask HN: How do you know if you're burnt out or just being lazy?”Submitted Can we please stop saying ORDER BY RAND/RANDOM is slow? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI quit my job and worked only on open source projects for almost two years. This is the article I wrote about my decision at the time: http://njclarke.com/posts/why-i-quit-my-job-to-work-on-open-... I never wrote a follow up to it, I guess in part because I'm still not sure exactly what I got out of it. I certainly improved a lot as a programmer - I'd say I worked harder on programming than at any time in my life, a…
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on “Ask HN: Have you taken 6 months to 1 year break to do self study?”Submitted Why not just use ERB? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI would recommend in addition to contributing to other projects, to try to start something of your own. Find something small and useful you can work on, and release it. It doesn't matter if it's small - the experience you get maintaining your own project will teach you a lot about how to contribute to other people's projects. My first open source project was a PHP script called "DBMailer" that I wrote when I had bee…
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on “Ask HN: How to begin contributing to an open source project?”Submitted Keeping Code Aesthetics in Perspective as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keeping Code Aesthetics in Perspective as a story · 1 points
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