Stevey's Blog Rant against The Church of Agile

Aditya M — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 10:48:11 +0000

Just finished reading Steve Yegge's rant against Agile. It's a work of Art, and the man is a gifted comedy writer 😂 The best part is how you get like... Louis CK level humour but with tons of programmer in-jokes!

My favourite part:

The Perl folks have this Perl Haiku competition each year. 
It's a nifty idea, and it's pretty amazing that 
you can write useful seventeen-syllable programs.

I tried it with Java once, and produced a valid Java haiku:

ArrayList<int> myListOfInt = new ArrayList<int>();

which, spoken aloud, reads:

ArrayList of Int
my list of int, equals new
ArrayList of Int

My sides.

Give it a go if you got some free time 😄 https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/10/egomania-itself.html?m=1

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Just finished the Python tutorial on Kaggle

Aditya M — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 02:28:10 +0000

Kaggle has an amazing set of courses with well organised content over here: https://www.kaggle.com/learn/overview

I just finished the Python micro-course (https://www.kaggle.com/learn/python), and I wanted to tell folks that it's worth your time! I've done some Rails programming before, but majority of my recent work was in JS (and PHP before that), so I needed a quick intro.

I tried learning Python a couple times via the Python website, but it just wasn't as ergonomic as this free Kaggle course. It can be literally completed in 4-5 hours, has lots of humour peppered in which kept it really entertaining, and Python is a rather nice language :-D

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Stevey's Blog Rant against The Church of Agile

Just finished the Python tutorial on Kaggle