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Dan Pink on motivation; Nietzsche on bigfug

7 June, 2010 (13:47) | Uncategorized | By: Alex May

I was reading a recent article on Coding Horror that introduced me to Dan Pink and his ideas on what motivates people in their lives, and the surprising research carried out by a range of eminent economists that would seem to prove money as an incentive for work that requires even rudimentary cognitive skills actually acts as [...]

Source Code Layout

13 December, 2009 (15:25) | Programming | By: Alex May

There have been several attempts to standardise the layout of source code.  This is a good thing ? if everyone used the same style we would spend less time trying to figure out what a slab of code actually does, free of layout inconsistencies and interpretations (and besides, everything would be clearly commented anyway, wouldn?t [...]


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