How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The hardest part of making real a collective vision of a software project is dealing with one’s coworkers and customers. Writing computer programs is important and takes great intelligence and skill. But it is really child’s play compared to everything else that a good programmer must do to make a software system that succeeds for both the customer and myriad colleagues for whom she is partially responsible.

At the end, whatever you say, that you have a good product it sells by itself, money spent on advertising and promotion still wins.

According to the statistics of this month’s US elections, the average House winner burned $1 million on the stump - and 90% of those that spent more won.  A notable example - Hillary Clinton of New YOrk was reportedly said to have spent $35.9 million.

If skyscrapers are symbols of prosperity, Shanghai is charging ahead,

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Shanghai, the financial hub of China for foreign investors and multinational companies, has more skyscrapers than any other city in the world, including New York City.