Comments on: Virtues of a Programmer http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2013/04/17/virtues-of-a-programmer/ I will not fix your computer. Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.26 By: gogi-goji http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2013/04/17/virtues-of-a-programmer/#comment-30969 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:01:43 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/?p=14114#comment-30969

Just a heads up, something seems to have gone wrong when you did some of your latest changes to the site. When individual posts are viewed in a mobile browser (at least in the stock Android browser and Opera Beta), your related posts plugin is generating a bazillion results. It looks like it keeps on generating them indefinitely. This also makes it essentially impossible to look at the comments in a mobile browser.

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By: Jason *StDoodle* Wood http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2013/04/17/virtues-of-a-programmer/#comment-30956 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:05:36 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/?p=14114#comment-30956

It appears to look bad on “h series” tags, thus far. I’m guessing it’s just one of those fonts that looks poopy when bold. ;)

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By: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2013/04/17/virtues-of-a-programmer/#comment-30868 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:37:59 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/?p=14114#comment-30868

@ Jason *StDoodle* Wood:

Thanks. By headings do you mean post titles or subheadings within posts?

@ astine:

Right. But that only applies in situations when you want to make progress. Sometimes you want to meet the deadline and deliver something concrete, and the guy on your team decides it’s “progress tiem”. And then it turns out it might be a bad thing. ;)

@ Athanor:

Ok, you might be right. Maybe I’m indeed stretching his words a bit too much.

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By: Athanor http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2013/04/17/virtues-of-a-programmer/#comment-30855 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:11:31 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/?p=14114#comment-30855

He said it was about writing code ‘…people won’t want to say bad things about’. While hubris could mean what you talk about, lazyness and impatience can also apply to bad behavior. If you write bad code, no test, etc. then it’s not what he meant.

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By: astine http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2013/04/17/virtues-of-a-programmer/#comment-30847 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:12:03 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/?p=14114#comment-30847

Hubris
Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won’t want to say bad things about. Hence, the third great virtue of a programmer.
– Programming Perl

I also got the impression that it meant a willingness to take on challenges that might be seem impossible, as a willingness to do those sorts of things is how progress is made.

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By: Jason *StDoodle* Wood http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2013/04/17/virtues-of-a-programmer/#comment-30838 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:07:31 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/?p=14114#comment-30838

Well, “hubris” can also apply to pride, not just arrogance, despite the latter usually being the one that’s meant. There’s nothing wrong with that definition; a good programmer should be able to take pride in the work they do.

Also, the font works well for the main blog / page title, but not so much for headings.

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By: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2013/04/17/virtues-of-a-programmer/#comment-30837 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:09:57 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/?p=14114#comment-30837

No, you’re right. I’ve been messing around with web fonts. Just tweaking the layout a bit. I should probably ditch it and just go with modern twenty-whatever-year-it-is version but I’m lazy. :P

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By: Mitlik http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2013/04/17/virtues-of-a-programmer/#comment-30831 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:50:48 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/?p=14114#comment-30831

I think I am going crazy, your main banner looks different. </random>

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