Discussions about yourself

How do you jump start yourself to do a task that you just despise doing? When starting a programming project, how do you jump start yourself to do a task that you just despise doing? Started by Jason on Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 17 posts by 17 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): That means, make the desirable task a reward for completing the undesirable one . We recently did a time management course, which was mostly a waste of our time :-) but one of the ideas they presented was to pair undesirable tasks with desirable ones .

What was the weirdest time and place that you've found yourself thinking (and solving) a programming problem? What was the weirdest (or most awkward) time and place that you've found yourself thinking about a programming problem? Started by plaureano on Monday, December 22, 2008, 23 posts by 23 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Don't wanna.... === UPDATE: Marking this as Community Wiki. I guess the silence and solitude helps clear the mind . Ironically, this always works, sometimes solving problems I've been battling for a few days already . In the toilet, while taking a dump.

What is the oldest code written by yourself to which you still have access? What is the oldest code written by yourself to which you still have access? And how has your coding style evolved over time? Started by flybywire on Sunday, May 03, 2009, 29 posts by 29 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): I still have floppies.... This should be a community wiki. It sucks much less now, though if you ask me in another 10 years I may answer differently . My coding style sucked then. I still have some code from 1998 that I wrote when I started graduate school .

Is it possible to think yourself into believing something about yourself that is not true? Started by Ax3boy on Friday, January 27, 2012, 14 posts by 8 people.   Read the full thread at reddit Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at reddit): Is that a lack of self esteem? When other on one's perception of oneself... . You overanalyze these peoples words and give that they are correct, and know more about you, than you do yourself. As a bad person, so you start believing it yourself.

Find it out by yourself or for yourself? Find it out by yourself or for yourself? Started by PERSON on Monday, February 06, 2012, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at yahoo Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at yahoo): For yourself means that you. By yourself means that you are alone while you are figuring it out.

What is the biggest project you've handled yourself? What is the biggest project you've handled yourself in terms of lines of code? What, in general, defines a project that is too big for one person? Started by on Saturday, June 27, 2009, 8 posts by 8 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Applications (even very large ones) yourself - and I have - but they suffer from the lack.

How do you get yourself to focus? What are some techniques you use to get yourself to focus on the task at hand, even if it's one that you don't really want to do? Answers along the lines of "If you have to work at focusing, get a different job" aren't useful. Started by Klondike on Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 24 posts by 24 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): If I am having a hard, when you realise you're spacing out or procrastinating on a task, tell yourself you're just going to do JUnit test for some new class.... yourself get started on those things until you've done the stuff on your list.

Programming for and by yourself If you're writing something by yourself, whether to practice, solve a personal problem, or just for entertainment, is it ok, once in a while, to have a public field? Maybe? Started by Stefan on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 11 posts by 11 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Just don't let it lead to habits which cross over into "real" code... . In particular, if you're experimenting with something completely different, taking shortcuts makes sense . I think it's reasonable if you're consciously throwing the code away afterwards .

How do you make yourself productive working in shell? How do you make yourself productive working in shell? What is most productive (time saving) one-liner you have ever used? Started by Oleksandr Bolotov on Monday, April 27, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Application.Exit() or shutdown -t 0 There is an extensive collection at Commandlinefu.com . .

If you could give yourself programming advice in the past, what would it be? Possible Duplicate: One piece of advice I was talking with some friends (about C++ programming), and someone ended up saying "I wish I could have known about the STL when I started C++." We got into an interesting conversation on advice we would have ... Started by rlbond on Sunday, June 07, 2009, 12 posts by 12 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): My code is.... I can't believe what I've been missing. I went years without it, and only for a few months now have begun using it . I would have told myself to learn version control. I wish I'd known just how required, and not just nice, source control is .