Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

Norvig: I think the people that are really successful are the same—at least that's what I see around here. But, yeah, it is a little bit more of, “Can I quickly get an understanding of what I need,” and less of, “I need complete understanding.” I think some of it is bravado, this willingness to say, “I'm just going to go ahead and do it,” the fearlessness of saying, “I don't understand everything that's going on, but I went into the documentation and I learned these three things. I tried it and it worked, so I'm just going to go ahead.” That gets you to a certain point, but I think to really be a good programmer, you can't just do that. You have to understand a little bit more, and say, “Is it safe, what I'm doing here? Or what are the failure cases? Sure, I tried it once and it worked, but is it always going to work? How do I write test cases to show that and to understand it a little better, and then once I've done that, can I extract what I've done and publish a new tool that other people can use because I've put these pieces together in a certain way.”

—p.294 8. Peter Norvig (287) by Peter Seibel 1 week, 2 days ago