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Re:San Francisco Bubble by ionforce on Friday January 29, 2016 @01:20PM (#10997198)
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.
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Re:San Francisco Bubble by IndianAstronaut on Friday January 29, 2016 @01:30PM (#10997306)
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.
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Re:San Francisco Bubble by restalis on Friday January 29, 2016 @02:23PM (#10997769)
It's a challenge for me to imagine "exceptional quality code" with "albeit a bit on the spaghetti side". Can you elaborate?
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Re:San Francisco Bubble by IndianAstronaut on Friday January 29, 2016 @04:46PM (#10998741)
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.
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Re:San Francisco Bubble by superplussed on Friday January 29, 2016 @06:22PM (#10999345)
These developer descriptions sound like they are coming from the "Silicon Valley" tv show.
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Re:San Francisco Bubble by Shorel on Friday January 29, 2016 @06:32PM (#10999406)
He can use goto :)
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Re:San Francisco Bubble by gearoidoc on Friday January 29, 2016 @04:25PM (#10998616)
"exceptional quality code (albeit a bit on the spaghetti side)" is an oxymoron.
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