Comments on: Become A Better Developer By Indexing Your Brain

By: 高兴的一天 « Flyer's Blog

高兴的一天 « Flyer's Blog — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:15:54 +0000

[...] work that way. If we don’t reinforce and dig deeper into the concepts we quickly page that information out as unimportant, it is a waste of time (think back to cramming for exams, how much do you remember the next day?). [...]

By: 程序员的谎谬之言还是至理名言？ | 酷壳 - CoolShell.cn

程序员的谎谬之言还是至理名言？ | 酷壳 - CoolShell.cn — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:19:18 +0000

[...] 我想在这里成为这个观点的反方，如果我们知道我们有哪些东西我们不知道，那么我们就知道我们需要去关注哪些东西。粗浅地尽可能的大范围的知道这些东西，那么，我们就可以在遇到问题的时候明白我们应该去更深地学什么样的知识。但是，这样来做在实际上并不有效，因为，这些浮云般的知识不会让你记下来，我们的大脑不是这样工作的。如果我们不去强化或是深度挖掘去消化这些概念，我们的大脑会很快地把这些信息标为不重要并换页出去，这么做无非就是在浪费时间（你回头想一想你那些“填鸭式”的死记硬背的知识，你今天还记得吗？）然而，对于那些你集中精力深度研究过的东西——并伴随着你的兴趣的东西——你会收获到扎实的知识（那是你大脑里实际存下的不会忘的东西）。我的爷爷是一个核物理学家，数十年的在工作中获得这个领域中更深的知识让他今天成为了一个专家，同时也让他成为了一个优秀的数学家，不错的化学家，非常好的地理学家，还是一个合格的生物学家，等等。只需要一些观察性的证据你就知道广度的知识是深度研究的副产品。 [...]

By: “I will learn it when I need it”! | .Net

“I will learn it when I need it”! | .Net — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:10:32 +0000

By: Destillat #35 – Wetware und Methodik | duetsch.info - Open Source, Wet-, Web-, Software

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:40:24 +0000

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By: Matt Hulse

Matt Hulse — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:46:58 +0000

Pragmatic Thinking & Learning – Refactor Your Wetware from The Pragmatic Programmers is really great so far. It’s fascinating to consider the possibilities of the human mind.

http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning

By: Destillat KW40-2009 | duetsch.info - GNU/Linux, Open Source, Softwareentwicklung, Selbstmanagement, Vim ...

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:30:36 +0000

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By: Parag Shah

Parag Shah — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:37:16 +0000

Thanks, that seems to be a good suggestion. Will try it out.

By: Alan Skorkin

Alan Skorkin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:04:08 +0000

Being able to take in and process a lot of information is another thing that you can become better at with practice. The trick here is to not just take the information as it comes but to actually try and sort it all out and apply some structure to it in your own head. The more you do this the better you will become at it.

By: HackLinks 30-09-2009 « Karim Ali

HackLinks 30-09-2009 « Karim Ali — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:35:56 +0000

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By: Parag Shah

Parag Shah — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:01:55 +0000

Before I become a software developer, I had an excellent memory. It stayed with me for a few years, when I could recall the line number of some important code I wrote.

But in the last few years, I have noticed my memory get totally messed up. I can almost trace it to the time when information overload started. I feel like I need to take in a lot of information, and as a result I shove in more than what my memory is capable of handling. Perhaps like a finite cache. If you put in more, something is going to get garbage collected.

So perhaps along with the above tricks, maybe we should also understand our limitations. Should we try to expand them? By all means… maybe the memory tricks will help. I definitely plan to try them out.