You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes

Re:You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes by jshowa3 on Monday July 01, 2019 @10:33AM (#20325608)

I think this is just the opposite extreme. I've literally seen people copy and paste code that they didn't fully understand and it ended up working. In fact, one of the senior devs where I work added a piece of code with the specific comment "I have no idea how this works and I don't care" and its been used ever since. And he's not a bad programmer by any means having written probably 90% of the software we use by himself.

Would you say there isn't some element of luck to that?

Granted I don't think it's a dominating factor, but I do think that it is present.

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Re:You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes by gridlockd on Monday July 01, 2019 @04:43PM (#20329547)

Of course there's an "element of luck" to everything, just like there's a level of variance to everything, but the dominating factor is skill.

Even if all you do is copy-paste code by trial and error, there's a level of skill to that too.

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