The Command Line

TCLP 2014-12-21 A Sense of Scale and Getting Back Up to Speed

Posted by Thomas Gideon on 21 December 2014

Used under CC license, by Wikipedia user Sunil060902

This is an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

In this episode, I share a couple more essays. Before the essays, I help spread the request for support from the GnuPG project. You can donate here. The first essay was already published on the web site, "A Sense of Scale." The second essay is new, "Getting Back Up to Speed," and I will publish it on the site in the next few days.

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Tags: #functional-decomposition #job-search #learning #organization #practice #quality #scale #walking

Sense of Scale

Posted by Thomas Gideon on 4 November 2014

$Seahorse Tail fractal by Wikipedia user, Wolfgangbeyer CC-BY-SA$

What is high quality code?

I have been asked this question now a couple of times in my current job search. I usually go back to my thoughts on functional decomposition. I like the concept but that phrase is clunky. It doesn't help explain the concept very well.