Coder

What they say about good programmer, interview, and design

My interpretation

Jamie Zawinski,

LISP hacker,

early Netscape developer,

nightclub owner

Stay away from big fan of C++ templates;?

Ability to argue their point is important.

Curiosity is a key skill for programmers.

There are people graduating with CS degrees who’d never written C. They started in java and they stayed there.? That just seemed bizarre and wrong.

不喜歡過度崇拜C++ 模板的程序員；

程序員的表達能力，說服能力好奇心很重要；

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很多學生拿到了CS 學位，但是從來沒寫過C 程序，他們學了Java，僅此而已。 這是非常奇怪和不對的。

Brad Fitzpatrick

creator of memcached, Perlbal, MogileFS.

interview question:

Write a class to do arbitrary, bigint manipulation with multiplication and division

寫一個大數的類，可以做乘除法。

Douglas Crockford?

creator of JSON

Good Programmer:

They have to read Knuth (TAOCP);?? they are really literate in whatever language they write to other humans.

I invite the candidate to bring in a piece of code he’s really proud of and walk us thru it.

讀過Knuth 的TAOCP;?

有很強的文字表達能力和溝通能力。

請應聘者帶自己最得意的代碼來，給大家看看。

Brendan Eich,?

Creator of JavaScript

hiring:

(rely on referral from team member)

Bright people like each other and can judge each other.?? I don’t give people puzzles to solve.? We give them fairly practical problems, Not esoteric puzzles or math-y things.

(他有時通過同事的推薦來招人)?

聰明的人會互相欣賞，評價。 我不想通過智力題來判斷程序員，我們給應聘者相當實際的問題，而不是那些奇怪的智力題或者數學題。

Joshua Bloch

Java Architect, author of “Effective Java”

About programming:

The older I get, the more I realize it isn’t just about making it work; it’s about producing an artifact that is readable, maintainable, and efficient.? …? it’s easier to optimized correct code than to correct optimized code.

“do you ever use UML as a design tool?”

No. I think it’s nice to be able to make diagrams that other people can understand.? But honestly I can’t even remember which components are supposed to be round or square.

關于編程:

我越來越意識到寫程序不是僅僅把程序寫出來，而是要讓你寫的程序可讀，可維護，并且高效。? 優化正確的程序要比改正已優化（但是有錯）的程序要容易。

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“你曾經用過UML 設計工具么?”

沒有。 能把設計畫成圖，讓別人理解當然很好。 但是說實話我記不起來哪些模塊應該是圓形，哪些是方形。

Joe Armstrong

creator of Erlang, and OTP.

Interview question:

“what was the most fun project you ever wrote; show me the code for this stuff; how would you solve this problem?”

I’m not so hung up on what they know about language X or Y.? they are either good at all languages or good at none.

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You have to have a good memory to be a reasonable programmer.

面試問題:

“你寫過的最好玩的項目是什么? 讓我看看代碼， 你是怎么解決這個問題的?”

我并不一味要求他們已經知道某一兩種語言。 好的程序員精通一種語言后，就會觸類旁通，能學好所有語言。

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好記性對一個好程序員很重要。