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Re:What makes a great developer? A story of an extraordinary... by thr0awaz on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @11:49AM (#18553082)
or somebody rewrote object.sort() from scratch instead of looking at the documentation, which isn't necessarily a 10x engineering problem, it's more of a 1/10th engineering problem.
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Re:What makes a great developer? A story of an extraordinary... by zimpenfish on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @02:23PM (#18554736)
Fixing that would definitely be one of the "good" cases of rewriting code into fewer lines. But it doesn't involve a "clever" solution (which is normally the problem), just a "smarter" one.
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