Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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I am a programmer.
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Man is programmed to find the programmer.
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The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
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I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.
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Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
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And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?
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The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
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The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
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It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.
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Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
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Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.
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If the programmer can simulate a construct faster than the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.
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The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.
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