How does a guy like that become senior? As a senior one should know that there is a pragmatic balance lost in trying to aim for perfection.
Re:San Francisco Bubble
by IndianAstronaut on Friday January 29, 2016 @01:30PM
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He has his strengths. He produces exceptional quality code (albeit a bit on the spaghetti side) and is good at finding problems in code. He is also 63 and has decades of experience.
It's a challenge for me to imagine "exceptional quality code" with "albeit a bit on the spaghetti side". Can you elaborate?
Re:San Francisco Bubble
by IndianAstronaut on Friday January 29, 2016 @04:46PM
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It covers a lot of corner cases, it is fast, it is robust, and produces good quality data. Only thing is it is hard to navigate.
Re:San Francisco Bubble
by superplussed on Friday January 29, 2016 @06:22PM
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These developer descriptions sound like they are coming from the "Silicon Valley" tv show.
He can use goto :)
This is why a product I was working on almost got killed. The senior engineer working on it wanted perfection before delivery. The project was already one year overdue. He suddenly came in one day and rushed me to finish up something and he wrapped up a couple things and we launched at the end of the week.
Found out that the project was going to be axed if we didn't deliver very soon.