<story><title>The Programmers&apos; Stone (2014)</title><url>https://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r0/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>prepend</author><text>I haven’t read the whole thing yet, but the structure and format and content-richness is a breath of fresh air.&lt;p&gt;I miss sites that were about sharing ideas and helping others rather than getting claps.&lt;p&gt;The only way I could think of making this better was if it was generated from a git repo so that one day if I’m ever worthy of asking a question or sending a suggestion, I could send a pull request. But that’s totally author’s prerogative and I’m happy they shared this in a non junky-way.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Programmers&apos; Stone (2014)</title><url>https://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r0/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hnzix</author><text>This text is not as impenetrable as it first seems and offers some valuable insights on the friction between socially conditioned roleplaying (&amp;quot;packing&amp;quot;) vs deep thinking (&amp;quot;mapping&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;My best takeaways were:&lt;p&gt;1. You&amp;#x27;re not crazy for being a deep thinker: it drives force multiplication&lt;p&gt;2. Ceremony is very often bullshit&lt;p&gt;3. You&amp;#x27;re going to have to make some quality sacrifices in your code - here&amp;#x27;s a useful model on how to approach that&lt;p&gt;I also liked the bits about using a step debugger for code reviews, and avoiding nested conditionals. I mostly failed to grasp the camel sex analogy.</text></comment>