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Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer by avip on Friday June 07, 2019 @11:18AM (#20125410)
And on the best of days - involves deleting code.
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Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer by monocasa on Friday June 07, 2019 @11:29AM (#20125535)
Classic story:

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...

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Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer by pkaye on Friday June 07, 2019 @12:13PM (#20126056)
My old boss of exceptional at this. He had hired a lead engineer to architect on code to support some new features and hardware. This lead was working on one of the important module.s It was 1300 lines of convoluted code and still not done. At that point the guy quit. My boss spend a day thinking about the requirements and wrote something that made perfect sense in 30 lines of code all one function.
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Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer by taneq on Friday June 07, 2019 @12:03PM (#20125945)
Fun fact: Bill Atkinson (featured in this story) also wrote the round rect drawing routine for the original Mac.

Source: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_...

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Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer by saagarjha on Friday June 07, 2019 @06:43PM (#20129299)
…among many other things, including writing MacPaint, QuickDraw, and HyperCard.
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