Things like Vim can speed up coding, you spend less time on the actual editing of the text. I used to just use vim (macvim in fact), but for php i recently (1 year?) switched to PhpStorm with a VIM plugin. That was a huge speed increase, being able to cmd+click on method names and be taken to its code and probably about 20-30 other features i use in php storm that i never had in macvim (even with a whole bunch of vim plugins).
(the vim plugin in phpstorm isn't perfect, but definitely good enough)
But I find the biggest speed ups are things like:
- using frameworks (and knowing about them - so you know everything the framework contains/can do) speeds a lot of things up. It helps to know a framework inside out as well as a majority of the popular libraries that are used with it.
- And knowing what libraries exist to do whatever job you are trying to do can save a lot of time. I think almost everyone has at one point coded something then later on found a perfect library (or even 'snippet') that they could use and would have saved a lot of time. As long as the library is mature enough I'd always prefer to include a library and use that rather than spend hours/a day/days/longer on coding something from scratch. It also helps if something stops working - you can probably find someone with experience with that library. Of course it does come with the disadvantage of it might not 100% fit what you need to do...
But it isn't like coding is a race. You often save a lot of time by going slower and planning things out. I used to plan apps out in a text file, but realised a few years ago that getting away from the computer and planning out everything on paper (lots of sheets of paper, lots of arrows, lots of mess, but in the end it makes sense) gets everything planned correctly before even coding, so there is no need to refactor big sections of your app. I always have a notebook of notes when programming now... even with lots of squiggles and messy handwriting it helps a lot more than notes in text files or even worse notes (like in depth to do notes) in /* comments */ or //comments .
That's a very interesting point! I would consider that a superpower. Would this also imply that humans are capabable of way more than one would normally think, given proper training?
It's just skimming. If you were reading a book, you would just scan across it to find what you want. You don't have to read everything on the page to know what it is talking about.
I would not say that. When you are skimming, you actually skip parts of the text. Since an audible text is a constant stream of data, just skipping parts would make it incomprehensible
In speed reading, you can read sentences backwards and the brain will reorder them in real time. You can learn to decouple image (symbol/word) acquisition from comprehension. Step one om this path is to stop subvocalization, saying words out loud in your head.
It's the same difference between Sync (O_DIRECT) and Async disk writes.
Despite Spotify occasionally being in the news for not paying the artists much, I bet this does add a lot of new revenue for the music industry.
Before I joined spotify (about a year ago) I hardly ever bought CDs or MP3s (defintely less than the £120/year that Sptofy costs) - there must be many other people also who are paying for Spotify now who never used to spend much on music before
Spotify is really sort of a separate internet for music. Anywhere you are, if you hear about a new genre, you can immerse yourself in it within seconds. Imagine doing that back in the days of Tower Records? Even the Tokyo location, or Amoeba Music can't cover the territory like Spotify can. I've tried.
> I bet this does add a lot of new revenue for the music industry.
Not that much.The music industry is over. Call it the entertainment industry , where the popularity of a song is mesured by youtube views,not actual sells. Even iTunes don't pay that much now a days. It's good, because any artist can "grow up fast" with a good social network marketing strategy. It's bad, because some kind of music need some investment only big producers could afford before. But crowdfunding can fix that. Yet no one can deny that the amount of crappy music today is just overwhelming (looking at you "hiphop"). Something like Nirvana could never happen today.But bands like Nirvana could have a moderate success.
But if you ask me, as an artist,while it's tough,i'm ok with how things work today,since I actually do some gigs and that's the most interesting part.
referrer spam is something that has been happening to years, and GA is actually quite good at filtering it comapred to a lot of other stats programs out there. This is really not an issue.
Yes, I had that in mind. The phone poll will be changed regularly as a protective measure. I have PITA when I'm dealing with craiglist, it works for me right now but I want to share that service(pro version) with other people.
The problem with any service like this is that you'll inevitably get a bunch of calls meant for previous users of that number. And from an article I read a while back they tend to be johns trying to get a hold of prostitutes.
ive been a subscriber of their email newsletter for a while now. (Only noticed emails in last few weeks though). but everytime i see one, i always open it, one of the few engaging newsletters.
(i'm not interviewing for any position, just think its decent content and well laid out).
(the vim plugin in phpstorm isn't perfect, but definitely good enough)
But I find the biggest speed ups are things like:
- using frameworks (and knowing about them - so you know everything the framework contains/can do) speeds a lot of things up. It helps to know a framework inside out as well as a majority of the popular libraries that are used with it.
- And knowing what libraries exist to do whatever job you are trying to do can save a lot of time. I think almost everyone has at one point coded something then later on found a perfect library (or even 'snippet') that they could use and would have saved a lot of time. As long as the library is mature enough I'd always prefer to include a library and use that rather than spend hours/a day/days/longer on coding something from scratch. It also helps if something stops working - you can probably find someone with experience with that library. Of course it does come with the disadvantage of it might not 100% fit what you need to do...
But it isn't like coding is a race. You often save a lot of time by going slower and planning things out. I used to plan apps out in a text file, but realised a few years ago that getting away from the computer and planning out everything on paper (lots of sheets of paper, lots of arrows, lots of mess, but in the end it makes sense) gets everything planned correctly before even coding, so there is no need to refactor big sections of your app. I always have a notebook of notes when programming now... even with lots of squiggles and messy handwriting it helps a lot more than notes in text files or even worse notes (like in depth to do notes) in /* comments */ or //comments .