Re:What distinguishes great software engineers? (2019) [pdf]
by vbezhenar on Monday November 16, 2020 @01:50AM
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I encounter so many bugs nowadays in my tools. I would probably spend all my time fixing those bugs in multi-million-LoC codebases (assuming that tool is open source). That story sounds like something that could happen back in the day, when things were simple enough. I wonder if it could happen today.
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Re:What distinguishes great software engineers? (2019) [pdf]
by oblio on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:10AM
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It's like with polymaths. The higher up the stack we move, in science, the harder it is to know multiple fields, let alone have a major impact on several.
Re:What distinguishes great software engineers? (2019) [pdf]
by galoisgirl on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:16PM
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Documenting bugs is providing a lot of value already.
It would be also inefficient for you to spend time learning how the tool works, setting up the environment etc. when there are people who know it already.