{"id":1589,"date":"2012-11-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2012\/11\/05\/1536\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T23:00:00","slug":"1536","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2012\/11\/05\/1536\/","title":{"rendered":"Attitude Matters Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Steven Raymond in The Art of Unix Programming \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faqs.org\/docs\/artu\/ch01s09.html\">Attitude Matters Too<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you see the right thing, do it \u2014 this may look like more work in the short term, but it&#8217;s the path of least effort in the long run. If you don&#8217;t know what the right thing is, do the minimum necessary to get the job done, at least until you figure out what the right thing is.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] You have to believe that software design is a craft worth all the intelligence, creativity, and passion you can muster. Otherwise you won&#8217;t look past the easy, stereotyped ways of approaching design and implementation; you&#8217;ll rush into coding when you should be thinking. You&#8217;ll carelessly complicate when you should be relentlessly simplifying \u2014 and then you&#8217;ll wonder why your code bloats and debugging is so hard.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] To do the Unix philosophy right, you need to have (or recover) that attitude. You need to <em>care<\/em>. You need to <em>play<\/em>. You need to be willing to <em>explore<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Steven Raymond in The Art of Unix Programming \u2013 Attitude Matters Too: \u201cWhen you see the right thing, do it \u2014 this may look like more work in the short term, but it&#8217;s the path of least effort in the long run. If you don&#8217;t know what the right thing is, do the minimum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}