Comments on: Become A Better Developer By Indexing Your Brain

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

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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.

By: Alan Skorkin

Alan Skorkin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:06:32 +0000

True, this is why it was the least of my argument. It is nevertheless an issue if you work in such environment. You can’t be waiting until the next day to look up everything, you will either need to know it or you will struggle to get anything done.

By: WebDesignExpert.Me

WebDesignExpert.Me — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:33:23 +0000

>>Aside from the fact that there are still some places out there that will not allow Internet access for security reasons.
This is a current technological limitation, not a conceptual limitation. If I know where and how to find something when needed, then theres no need to memorize the same.

By: Alan Skorkin

Alan Skorkin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:03:46 +0000

Thanks for that link, always interested in good books about the mind.

By: gene t

gene t — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:20:34 +0000

Good post. I think software development entails internalizing rules of the language’s grammer implicitly (code just looks right) and explicity (where you know which operators are left-associative, or whatever) and after a while they meet in the middle.

Also the 2 Oreilly mind hacks are really good

http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Hacks-Tricks-Using-Brain/dp/0596007795/