Are You a Humble Programmer?

[brian]

I just finished up a five-part series of http://labviewjournal.com blog posts based on the following premises...

 

1) I am not very smart

2) I should architect my code at a level appropriate to my abilities

 

Discuss.

 

Start here... http://labviewjournal.com/2013/05/humility-1/

 

Brian

 

[soupy]

I sent your articles to my colleagues in an email titled "egoless programming" and they thought it was a joke. I've got a lot of work to do here...

[todd]

Wish I could send this to the managers I've had over the last 15 years.*

Ooh, or to the managers yet to come.

 

 

* Except for those two blissful years where there was an actual team.

[ShaunR]

1) I am very smart for very short periods with very small pieces of code and have a FIFO memory retention(without google ).

Therefore my LV utils toolkit is very smart and I just have to be clever enough on a daily basis to remember which part of the toolkit solved that problem last time. It's the difference between being smart and being experienced

2) I architect my code at a level well below my abilities since debugging is twice as hard as writing code and therefore I'm not competent enough to debug code written to my ability (to contextually quote Brian Kernighan).

Oh.

and a framework is an architecture without the important bits (quote: ShaunR)

Edited June 11, 2013 by ShaunR

[Darin]

[chorus]
 Oh Lord it's hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way.
 I can't wait to look at my diagrams cause they get better looking each day.
 To know my G is to love G I must be a hell of a man.
 Oh Lord it's hard to be humble but I'm doing the best that I can.
[chorus]

 I used to have a girlfriend but she just couldn't compete
 with all of these love starved women who keep clamoring at my feet.
 Well I prob'ly could find me another but I guess they're all in awe of G.
 Who cares, I never get lonesome cause I treasure my own BD.

[chorus]

 I guess you could say I'm a loner, a cowboy outlaw tough and proud.
 I could use lots of classes if I want to but then I wouldn't stand out from the crowd.
 Some folks say that I'm egotistical. Hell, I don't even know what that implies.
 I guess it has something to do with the way that I wire my unmatched VIs.

[chorus]

[GregFreeman]

Saying I'm guilty of number 2 is an understatement. 

[Daklu]

Long ago I read that if you want to communicate effectively, you should use the vocabulary of an 8th grader.  Avoid using obscure words as much as reasonably possible.  Even if the reader encounters unfamiliar words, the can infer what they mean from the context.  The principle applies to writing code as well.