{"id":153,"date":"2007-03-16T08:12:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T16:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.colliertech.org\/cj\/?p=153"},"modified":"2007-03-16T08:12:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T16:12:21","slug":"wisdom-from-irc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from IRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>\r\n08:41 &lt; cj&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/moonfire.us\/blog\/\">dmoonfire<\/a>: I did a bunch of line breaking and whitespace reduction \r\n            tricks to keep all columns below 80 chars.  Maybe I should use more \r\n            terse, context-specific variable names...\r\n08:42 &lt; <a href=\"http:\/\/moonfire.us\/blog\/\">dmoonfire<\/a>&gt; I like verbose names, even with 80col, no idea why.\r\n08:42 &lt; cj&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/svn.colliertech.org\/mono\/dnpbAutotools\/dnpbAutotools\/test.cs\">https:\/\/svn.colliertech.org\/mono\/dnpbAutotools\/dnpbAutotools\/test.cs<\/a>\r\n08:42 &lt;@<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jprl.com\/Blog\/index.html\">jonp<\/a>&gt; name length should be proportional to scope size\r\n08:42 &lt; cj&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jprl.com\/Blog\/index.html\">jonp<\/a>: well put\r\n08:42 &lt; <a href=\"http:\/\/moonfire.us\/blog\/\">dmoonfire<\/a>&gt; A wonderful way of saying it.\r\n08:42 &lt; cj&gt; mind if I blog that?\r\n08:42 &lt;@<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jprl.com\/Blog\/index.html\">jonp<\/a>&gt; it's in a book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPractice-Programming-Brian-W-Kernighan%2Fdp%2F020161586X&#038;tag=colliertechno-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">The Practice of Programming<\/a>\r\n08:43 &lt; <a href=\"http:\/\/i-nz.net\/\">i-nz<\/a>&gt; amen.\r\n08:43 &lt;@<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jprl.com\/Blog\/index.html\">jonp<\/a>&gt; don't recall if it was put exactly like that, but it's close to \r\n              that.\r\n08:43 &lt;@<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jprl.com\/Blog\/index.html\">jonp<\/a>&gt; cj: and yes, you can blog it\r\n08:43 &lt;@<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jprl.com\/Blog\/index.html\">jonp<\/a>&gt; cj: and plug <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPractice-Programming-Brian-W-Kernighan%2Fdp%2F020161586X&#038;tag=colliertechno-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">The Practice of Programming<\/a> too. :-)\r\n<\/pre>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=cjamescollier\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:41 &lt; cj&gt; dmoonfire: I did a bunch of line breaking and whitespace reduction tricks to keep all columns below 80 chars. Maybe I should use more terse, context-specific variable names&#8230; 08:42 &lt; dmoonfire&gt; I like verbose names, even with 80col, no idea why. 08:42 &lt; cj&gt; https:\/\/svn.colliertech.org\/mono\/dnpbAutotools\/dnpbAutotools\/test.cs 08:42 &lt;@jonp&gt; name length should be proportional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,79,181,7,102,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autotools","category-free-software","category-irc","category-mono","category-open-source","category-prebuild"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YDIB-2t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}