Sean Scanlon
@sps
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when will then be now?
London 🇬🇧
Joined March 2007
the hardest problem in computer science is aligning talent and incentives with outcomes
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"If Maven downloads the Internet, npm downloads the Internet and all of its friends" --@mraible
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You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
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Your team is an immutable data structure. Every time you modify it, you're actually making a whole new one.
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Blaming perf issues on Garbage Collection is like blaming your hangover on your liver... Its the thing that's saving you from your code
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There are only two hard problems in computer science: 1. People 2. People
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Stuff that will help your coding career more than a degree: mentorship, cool projects on GitHub, experience building real apps.
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People are willing to pay $20 for games that will never be finished on kickstarter, but they won't pay $1.99 for a game they can have now.
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"It is far, far easier to make a correct program fast than it is to make a fast program correct." - Herb Sutter
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“Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.” - Eagleson's law
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"Dude, suckin' at something is the first step to being sorta good at something." —Jake, "Adventure Time" via @momentumdash
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