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I think touch typing helps in addition to holding the program in your head.

I agree with the authors views. I'd say its most valuable: 1. Learn what you like 2. Diversify your learning into non coding skills like finance and pyschology and understanding the complexity of the world. 3. Learn a problem solving mindset thats domain independent. what do people here think?

try gtypist(shell) or ratatype http://www.ratatype.com/

Someone else's success is not your failure, internalizing that message is the key.

For me it was 1.Influence: http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Robert... It talks about how the brain has certain preprogrammed sequences for situations. 2.Predictably Irrational http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Hidden-Forces-D... Again about the hidden mechanisms with which we make decisions and our reptile brain.

I got this piece of advice from a mentor. "The best developers are not the smartest ones, but the ones who ship most often." That being said, following a test driven development path will put you ahead of everyone who doesn't test.

thanks!

coincidentally I am working through land of lisp, recommend it: http://www.amazon.com/Land-Lisp-Learn-Program-Game/dp/159327... Do I see myself using lisp in production code? Not in the near future. I do think there is value in learning something that exposes you to thinking in different ways, till now what Ive gained is that Python is pretty lispy!

This is the experience I had as a newbie http://hkelkar.com/2011/04/09/48964049/

It will make you more productive and by extension have all the time you devote to finding a key now free. The biggest advantage being maintaining flow as you think about code. An almost seamless transition from thought to the editor. http://hkelkar.com/2014/03/02/learn-to-type-before-you-learn...

Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Other bay area cities, Full Time

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Overview: Software Craftsman who loves to solve business problems, With domain experience in the enterprise and ad-tech, looking to make an impact in my next role building data pipelines, analytics platforms and tools that the business needs. I also have an interest in machine learning algorithms, Gave a talk on Computing Document Similarity using nltk(link in resume) at the Bay area Python Interest Group.

Yes my technique improved after i purchased a kinesis advantage split keyboard which forced me to separate hands, Now with gtypist drills I am much better on regular ones as well. Great to know learning to type has worked well for you @joshontheweb & @j45

Point noted duiker101, I think though typing well is a discipline in itself and enhances dev productivity. I think there was a post by Steve Yegge a few years back on learning to type http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties...

Welcome to the industry, you are a professional now. As a freshman in a moderately sized company, the projects you are given are a way for them to assess you. Do them well. Observe what problems are being solved and what aren't? Is there a process that can be improved? Go build it. Satisfying your work is a stepping stone to building expertise and will enable you to demand better tasks. This is based on what I experienced http://hkelkar.com/2013/01/01/being-craftsman/. You can always learn on your own, coursera, projects on github etc. If you still think you are not learning, then most certainly move. Good luck!

http://www.pomodoro.me/ do stuff in chunks of 25 minutes of uninterrupted time.

I would say 3 books did it for me: 1. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott adams http://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still-ebook... 2. Choose Yourself! - James Altucher http://www.amazon.com/Choose-Yourself-James-Altucher-ebook/d... 3. Anti Fragile -Nassim Taleb http://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-that-Gain-Disorder-... The first two as the names suggest are more on self-improvement and creating systems that increase the probability of long term success. The third one talks more about the things that gain from disorder thus increasing my understanding of how the world works.

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life. This is Scott adams take on being successful. http://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still-ebook...

Choose yourself is a similar themed book. http://www.amazon.com/Choose-Yourself-James-Altucher-ebook/d...

Best 16$ spent in 2013.

I doubt people will pay for that, I actually launched something similar over the weekend http://hkelkar.com/2013/10/27/how-i-built-a-weather-decision...

wouldn't installing gawk on all target machines take care of portability?

thank you tux1968, will consider learning perl! I did have a query on the post asking how perl would fare and you just gave that answer.

Thank you mtdewcmu, did not know about the built in sort in gawk, will make the switch.

Nice article. awk is a fantastic tool to get quick insights into not so large data. This is my take which I wrote last tuesday incidentally http://hkelkar.com/2013/10/15/rolling-up-data-with-awk/

This is something I wrote couple of years ago. http://hkelkar.com/2011/02/19/the-case-for-open-source-devel... For me its to become better at my craft.