The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got | Technology As If People ...

The good folks over at InformIT have published another of my articles. Here?s how it starts:

The best programming advice I ever got came to me early in my career while I was working on a system that I simultaneously loved and hated. The cool part of that system was that we were doing computer aided design ? think Adobe Illustrator, but for engineers. In those days CAD, with its interactive graphics, was the highest of high tech. The thing I hated was that the it was slow, painfully slow: You would sit there and watch the picture appear line by painful line. A simple drawing would take tens of seconds, while displaying something complicated was an opportunity to get coffee. The performance of that system was horrendous even by the standards of the primitive computers we had back then, which is saying something. What was a hacker to do? What would *you* do? ?

Find out what I did over at InformIT.

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Source: http://blog.russolsen.com/2012/08/the-best-programming-advice-i-ever-got/

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