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Re:A personal story about 10× development by supermatt on Friday July 19, 2019 @07:41AM (#20477767)
Because what a "10x developer" (i would just call them pragmatic, personally) might call a shitty solution is still better than what you may call a well designed testable solution?

Not everything needs 90% test coverage and more comments than code to be good. And not everything with 90% test coverage and more comments than code is any good at all.

Re:A personal story about 10× development by mugsie on Friday July 19, 2019 @08:42AM (#20478121)
Not at all. The quality of the code may be terrible.

BUT - when someone else new comes along to look at it, the 90% code coverage, and comments helps them immensely - they can get up to speed to fix whatever bug has appeared a lot quicker.

Re:A personal story about 10× development by mamon on Friday July 19, 2019 @07:52AM (#20477836)
This is so true, because people that are really good at something usually hold themselves to incredibly high standards (which is one of the main reasons they become master craftsmen in the first place).
Re:A personal story about 10× development by fogetti on Friday July 19, 2019 @11:31AM (#20479446)
Yes. The standard is so high that they can't even find words for it. So they just call it simply shitty.
Re:A personal story about 10× development by fogetti on Friday July 19, 2019 @11:29AM (#20479416)
Pragmatism based on shittyism? Or how shall we imagine this? Is there a motto for this? "We excel in shitty code or something?"
Re:A personal story about 10× development by supermatt on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:08AM (#20497185)
I think you are missing the point. That someone calls their own solution "shitty" doesn't mean that it's shitty by your standards, its shitty by theirs. The reality is that people have different standards. I don't understand the hate you seem to be exuding for productive people.
Re:A personal story about 10× development by falcor84 on Saturday July 20, 2019 @12:31PM (#20486708)
I think it's just another variant of Less is More