My daily readings 07/29/2012

• Ask HN: How do I improve my programming/engineering skills | Hacker News

  tags: programming

• Offer HN : Is there anything I can make for you? | Hacker News

• Ask HN: What is the best way to find out about competition for an idea? | Hacker News

• Ask HN: What are the “Best Practices” you generally follow? Here is mine. | Hacker News

• Share your favorite subreddits | Hacker News

• It’s Not Magic – Still Another Nerd Interlude

  tags: nerd

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  • As it turned out, the heart of McIlroy’s critique was simple but devastating: a six-line Unix shell script that accomplished exactly the same task as Knuth’s 10-page Pascal program. McIlroy then went on to explain why this was a better method of solving the problem than Knuth’s, his main argument being that his method re-used general purpose utilities instead of writing custom code. Just to lay my cards on the table at once, I’m with McIlroy on this one, as the author of the blog post appears to be, and I’ll spend most of the rest of this post giving some reasons why. Unfortunately it’s too late to comment on the blog post itself, or I’d be doing it there, since I’ll be responding to comments that were made there.

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