>> Making software is like making children.
>> It’s one brief moment of creation.
>> And a lifetime of maintenance and cleaning up vomit.
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>> What makes code good, is that it’s almost anonymous.
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>> Mm. You shouldn’t be able to read someone’s code and say, oh,
you know what?
>> I think Kevin from down the hall wrote that.
>> Because if it’s idiosyncratic like that, that means it’s hard for
someone else to modify.
>> We should all be able to grasp each other’s code, and
modify the hell out of it.
>> Hey, guys, who wrote this code?
>> It’s super buggy.
>> It just crashed the whole server.
>> I can’t tell.
>> Tyler, can you tell?
>> I cannot tell, that is brilliant work.
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>> See, a good coder doesn’t have style that’s distinctly their own.
>> If you have a style of coding that’s distinctly your own for good
reasons, it will be good and people will adapt to it and mimic your style.
>> And then it becomes anonymous again.
>> Everyone falls in line.
>> It’s like Darwinism.
>> It’s like Darwinism.
>> Good code has a natural rhythm.
>> Good code has a natural rhythm.
>> It goes on, it makes you think, think, think, write, write, write.
>> It goes on, it makes you think, think, think, write, write, write.
>> [CROSSTALK] And the you hand off the computer, you pause,
see what happens, you find the problem, and then you think think, think,
write, write, write again.
>> And your life flows beautifully.
>> And that’s why you should go to Burning Man, every year.
>> You’ve never been to Burning Man.
>> Yeah, but I get it.
>> You don’t get it until you go.
>> You go, you get it.
>> Why don’t you invite me?
>> You never invite me.
>> because I have two seats in my car,
take the train >> What’s the train to Burning Man?
>> The Amtrak, take the Amtrak, use your imagination.
>> What stop is it?
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>> People always ask us, do you do other activities while you’re coding,
like do you check Facebook?
>> And we always reply, we’re not taking questions right now, we’re coding.
>> Does that answer your question?
>> Well, we don’t care because we’re not taking answers either.
>> We’re coding!
>> Get!
>> Coding requires complete focus.
>> Did Monet tweet while he was painting Bridge Over Troubled Water Lillies?
>> Did Mona Lisa smile when she was getting her picture taken?
>> Yeah, Saggar’s actually known around the office as Coda Lisa.
>> It’s because my code is a work of art, right?
>> It’s because he’s not capable of smiling at all.
>> That too.
>> Even if you tickle him.
>> It’s unbelievable, oh, watch this.
[NOISE] I’m going to tickle you.
>> I’m going to tickle you.
>> Under your chinny chin, nope, on your ear.
[NOISE] >> I haven’t smiled since the early ’90s, bro.
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