How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002) (samizdat.mines.edu)

1. Code is like farts - everyone else's except yours will stink. 2. See 1 above.

For those that prefer the PDF since instapaper only grabs the first chapter: http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.pdf

Half expected it to just be a blank page except for the word "DON'T"

It's a bit soon to repost this, I think.

Exact dupe, just 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9105494

A year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507254

Two years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625013

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6620536

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6332363

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5258171

Three:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3987589

Four:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2052272

Five:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1506376

Six:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=677089

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=370874

Eight:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=75774

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42627

Chapter�1.�Introduction

The article not only has as an encoding problem but also software development has changed drastically since 2003.