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Learning the craft
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| Like anything that requires skill, programming is one of those things it's
| hard to do as “just a job”, clocking in Monday to Friday. At least it's hard
| to do well that way. The best programmers I have worked with have an
| obsessiveness about them, a desire to create perfection within the machine.
| It's probably why promising young programmers are so easily persuaded to work
| punishing hours for a start-up by smart business people who know how to
| motivate them, not by money but by interesting work.
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| [...]
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| Read code. Lots of code.
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| Before the advent of ubiquitous Open Source/Free Software this used to be
| hard to do. I had to learn by reading the internals of Sun's (my employer at
| the time) X Windows libraries and Solaris kernel code. These days there's no
| excuse for not looking at the multi-millions of lines of high quality code
| free to review from the Open Source/Free Software communities.
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http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/285
Recent:
Bill Gates and the importance of source code
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| I don’t think the producers of the show realised the significance of this
| admission, since they quickly cut to another segment. Reading between the
| lines, Gates is essentially confessing that he would not have progressed had
| he and Paul Allen not found the source code. Without this knowledge, and
| without this opportunity to understand and experiment with how the internals
| of a computer worked, Gates and Allen would have been severely constrained in
| their ability to found a software company and develop products
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| I would go so far as to say that Microsoft owes its very existence to this
| access to source code.
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| To anyone with a passing familiarity to how things worked back then, this
| comes as no surprise. Source code was expected to be free, and this in turn
| nurtured a generation of computer hackers. But whereas Richard Stallman saw
| the amazing potential of this freedom and wanted to preserve it for all, Bill
| Gates appears to have perceived it as an advantage for himself that he must
| deny to others.
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http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2008/06/22/bill-gates-and-the-importance-of-source-code/
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