Re:Why I close pull requests
by user7474 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @11:59AM
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Ouch. I don't think I've ever met a competant engineer who would agree with the sentence. The person who posted it is obviously very junior and I don't think I'll ever call him/her an engineer if they don't manage to mature away from that kind of prattle.
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Where are the mods? Does the rule against inflammatory ad-hominem attacks apply only to those holding unpopular opinions?
Believe me, I'm the furthest thing from junior you'll ever see. I don't particularly care what you call me, but I'm produced tons of value.
There's a certain type of mid-career programmer who's obsessed with "best practices" and thinks that anyone who doesn't stuff a program full of design patterns is being incompetent and irresponsible. It's a kind of "sanctimony porn". The attitude is that "if programming is hard for me, it'd better be hard for you too". It's this kind of programmer that shames other programmers for having opinions that result in the creation of simpler code.
I hope you grow out of this phase.