A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.
I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.
If people want to code, and they want to be entrepreneurs, there's opportunities for them to do that.
The word 'code' turns out to be a really important word for my book, 'The Information.' The genetic code is just one example. We talk now about coders, coding. Computer guys are coders. The stuff they write is code.
I like to write from midnight to dawn with great stores of candy and Red Bull laid in... I'm not sure why I have the work habits of a 20-year-old coder, but no matter how many times I set up a more reasonable schedule, I always fall back to this.
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.