20 Oct
2024
20 Oct
'24
12:16 a.m.
On Sat, 19 Oct 2024, Clem Cole wrote:
Yes, programming is often better when it's a more
social enterprise. It's
funny. I liked having an office for times when I wanted to think, but when
I was batting an interesting issue or trying to remember something pretty
obscure, the terminal room was the best. I also began to slowly realize my
own knowledge base was improving when I was the one answering the question
when someone asked, " Hey, does anybody have a good way to ..."
I notice I'm more motivated to work on a program when I'm not alone
slogging through it.
Of course a lot of my projects tend to fall into the "who cares?"
category. Like trying to backport MS-DOS 6.2 functionality to the
open-source 4, or create an alternate-universe OS where it was System V
rather than BSD that got the Theseus treatment...
-uso.