Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D

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On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 03:13:38 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41sdzj/walter_bright_on_being_a_developer_running_an/

I really enjoyed this talk, it's very interesting to see how 
Walter works and to compare it with our own personal preferences.

Walter talks about how to manage the ebb and flow of motivation 
when working on a long term project. His suggestion of always 
doing some small bit of work on it on a daily basis was new to me 
and seems like a great idea. Personally I also like to rotate 
what I work on within the project, and will switch to something 
new and interesting when the everyday parts get boring. I'm 
pretty sure Walter also does this to maintain his own motivation, 
and this explains why he doesn't always work on what seems most 
important in the D world, but instead whatever is required to 
keep his own excitement for the project alive. A recent example 
is when he worked on optimising DMD instead of various other more 
mundane but arguably important tasks. The fact is, as developers 
we sometimes have to nourish our motivation even at the expense 
of delaying some of the more important but less rewarding work.