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"In computer science there's not much difference between what I can build and what I can imagine"
-- Sussman

To Love Me Is to Judge Me | Psychology Today: "The key is to allow yourself to be judged without shutting down, defending, or turning away.

Ask Slashdot: Best Certifications To Get? - Slashdot: "We teach about programming and expect that students will spontaneously learn to write from this collection of facts.

In language acquisition there is a hypothesis called the 'Input Hypothesis'. It states that *all* language acquisition comes from 'comprehensible input'. That is, if you hear or read language that you can understand based on what you already know and from context, you will acquire it. Explanation does not help you acquire language. I believe the same is true of programming. We should be immersing students in good code. We should be burying them in idiom after idiom after idiom, allowing them to acquire the ability to program without explanation.

Ask Slashdot: Best Certifications To Get? - Slashdot: "My current theory is that programming is quite literally writing. The vast majority of programming is not conceptually difficult (contrary to what a lot of people would have you believe). We only make it difficult because we suck at writing. The vast majority of programmers aren't fluent, and don't even have a desire to be fluent. They don't read other people's code. They don't recognise or use idioms. They don't think *in the programming language*. Most code sucks because we have the fluency equivalent of 3 year olds trying to write a novel. And so our programs are needlessly complex.

Ubuntu (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.

38 Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 38 Years | zen habits: "13. You will miss a ton, but that’s OK. We’re so caught up in trying to do everything, experience all the essential things, not miss out on anything important … that we forget the simple fact that we cannot experience everything. That physical reality dictates we’ll miss most things. We can’t read all the good books, watch all the good films, go to all the best cities in the world, try all the best restaurants, meet all the great people. But the secret is: life is better when we don’t try to do everything. Learn to enjoy the slice of life you experience, and life turns out to be wonderful.

38 Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 38 Years | zen habits: "8. I’m not cool, and I’m cool with that. I wasted a lot of energy when I was younger worrying about being cool. It’s way more fun to forget about that, and just be yourself.

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Knowing and Doing: March 2011 Archives: "The best teachers are permission givers. They show students some of what is possible and then create conditions in which students can run with ideas, put them together and take them apart, and explore the boundaries of their knowledge and their selves.

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MOSS: I don’t mind telling you, Roy, that sometimes the people upstairs cheese me off to such an extent that if I were the type to use bad language, I’d be employing it bitterly and repeatedly.