Programming Atrophy

March 21, 2013
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It’s stunning to me how stale one can become when they don’t code for a while.

I just put together a quick little something in Python for hitting a Google API, collecting results into an array, and then adding in some results from a dictionary query, and man…it took forever.

Repeating that task right now would take 10 minutes, and trying it again from scratch in a year would take a few hours. Weird.

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