This was an amazing read. Thank you Paul.
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There you chose to sit.
The screwdriver-manufacturing business is not very profitable, so nobody wants to be in it.
It's pretty funny to me. I had a bunch of people ask me to implement features or fix bugs, and I just told them I don't want to spend time doing that. Very few had gotten entitled, and even those went silent when I told them I'm a volunteer.
I think it's still important to let people speak and ask for things, even if you're not going to give it to them. Also I have zero expectation of anyone ever paying me for my open-source contributions.
One nice thing about rude people is that at least they tell you what they want.
> I guess this would be quite an increase in scope.
That's quite the understatement :)
I thought that was going a really different direction than it ended up going.
Edit: Wow, I thought I was going the extra mile to make the joke obvious by saying the key should also take you to the beginning of a text line, but I guess it wasn't obvious enough for the first 3 commentators.
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1. While each line is a separate step that's done in order, it's done on the results of the previous step. So it's like "get me the sum of the products of the results of foo" rather than "do x, then do y, then do z".
2. Your example has less steps.
The "list of actions" approach is what makes code complexity grow exponentially, because whenever you look at a series of 10 instructions, you have to think "what state was created by the combination of the first 7 instructions, and does the eighth instruction depend on that state?"
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I'm thinking mostly of Berlin or Munich, but anywhere in the EU could work.
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