Reflections on Ten Years of Programming

中文版本 1 Preface Malcolm Gladwell’s “10,000-hour rule” suggests that continuous investment of 10,000 hours of effort is sufficient to reach expert level in any field. Based on 20 hours of practice per week, this requires about 3 hours of daily investment, taking roughly ten years to achieve this goal. Since I wrote my first line of C code, more than ten years have passed. During this period, I have written over 300,000 lines of code, some of which, written at WeChat, have served more than 1 billion users. ...

December 15, 2024 · 5 min · 2270 words