Sometimes when I’m programming I look back at old code that I wrote long ago and I am surprised. I say to myself “I wonder what was going on in that guy’s mind.”<\/p>\n
There are times when I think “Would, he really didn’t have a clue, did he? I’m just going to have to fix this now.”<\/p>\n
Then there are other times when I look at code that I wrote some time ago and I think “This guy is so much smarter than I am. I have no idea how he figured out how to do that.”<\/p>\n
I’m not sure what it all means. Is what I am describing some failure of long term memory? Or is it just the fact that we use multiple parts of our mind when we do something like programming a computer?<\/p>\n
I know that technically I’m talking about a single-person activity. But sometimes it sure feels a hell of a lot like collaborating with somebody I don’t quite know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometimes when I’m programming I look back at old code that I wrote long ago and I am surprised. I say to myself “I wonder what was going on in that guy’s mind.” There are times when I think “Would, he really didn’t have a clue, did he? I’m just going to have to fix … Continue reading “Collaborating with myself”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20169,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20168\/revisions\/20169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}