Re:When There’s an Audience, People’s Performance Improves
by chrismcb on Saturday April 21, 2018 @04:25PM
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Yes, but for different reasons. If I write a small tool for myself, I'm willing to live with some idiosyncrasies. But if I'm Going to release it to the siteId, then I need to fix those issues. It is the 80-20 rule. I'm willing to do the 80% for myself, but a release takes the other 20%.
I don't think this has anything to do with open source. Just whether you will release the product to the world.
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Re:When There’s an Audience, People’s Performance Improves
by stordoff on Saturday April 21, 2018 @07:35PM
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I've noticed the same. Code for me - if there's a weird bug but there is a workaround, I'll probably just use the workaround. Code that others _might_ use - I'll fix the bug, and often end up with better (structured) code as a result.