Random Open Source Work (and a scary 9-1-1 call)
Monday, May 28th, 2001 at 12:00 am
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R.I.F. Reading Is…
Feeling in a rut, I decided to load up CATB on my Palm and do some reading. Two quotes stuck out and are immediately relevant to my current growing workload.
Open Source
“…I had another purpose for rewriting besides improving the code and the data structure design, however. That was to evolve it into something I understood completely. It’s no fun to be responsible for fixing bugs in a program you don’t understand…”
Work
“…A happy programmer is one who is neither underutilized nor weighed down with ill-formulated goals and stressful process friction…”
my $retention = Lather::Rinse->Repeat;
Interesting cardiac problems have arisen of late. Scary 9-1-1 call involved.