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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by sriram_malhar on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:04AM (#24977475)
I think an employee would prefer to be rated on the quality and quantity of their output, not on whether they used autocomplete or not.
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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by svennek on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:22AM (#24981021)
Hopefully not quantity as measured by lines-of-code...
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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by sriram_malhar on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:33PM (#24986465)
Right, not quantity in that sense, but as a fraction of the working product expected of you.

I have known a couple of people who fussed and fussed with little chunks of code until they were little gems, but always missed the big picture and missed deadlines. I have also known a few whose instinct was to write a framework first, and that takes a life of its own; the most egregious one was a CLOS (common lisp) style system using C macros. Debugging was a nightmare.

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