Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer
by baq on Friday June 07, 2019 @11:26AM
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After 15 years in the business I think itβs worse than that: code is a liability. It matters - to have as little of it as necessary and not a line more.
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Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer
by solipsism on Friday June 07, 2019 @09:14PM
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Nope. Sometimes it's the right choice to leave something in that your heuristic would lead you to rip out.
Can we stop with these simplistic maxims? Engineering is about tradeoffs and dealing with complexity. Trying to reduce the decision-making process to a single sentence is silly.