Monthly Archives: August 2011

Programming Without an Internet Connection

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

Are you able to program without an internet connection? In my case the answer is definitely “No.” In most of my programming tasks I need to get some help from the internet, generally in the form of documentation and examples. … Continue reading →

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How Decision Fatigue Affects the Efficacy of Programmers

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

In the past, programming was an activity based on assembling low-level instructions using a small numbers of structures: there were loops, conditional statements and function calls. Systems were built through the application of relatively few patterns at different scales. Even … Continue reading →

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