Ask HN: What lessons did you learn from your best or worst colleagues?

Re:Ask HN: What lessons did you learn from your best or wors... by chrisgp on Saturday May 15, 2021 @12:22AM (#27162343)

Best: Good research is about the quantity and throughput of ideas you can test, not the quality of individual ideas.

Worst: Code should be designed for users, not any individual engineer's philosophical preference.

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Re:Ask HN: What lessons did you learn from your best or wors... by ozim on Saturday May 15, 2021 @07:34AM (#27164323)

The best one I understand and agree. If one tries to work only on "good" ideas he might never work on anything. Trying stuff out is super important even if it is a bit silly idea to work out.

Worst, the way it is written left me a bit confused.

I understood:

If someone wants "perfect code" because of "software craftsmanship". Where "users are stupid" because they should learn how to use the software. It is really bad way to do software.

Quotations mean beliefs of person having such of a approach.

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Re:Ask HN: What lessons did you learn from your best or wors... by CRConrad on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:28AM (#27180322)

> Worst, the way it is written left me a bit confused.

> [ . . . ]

> Quotations mean beliefs of person having such of a approach.

You can learn how not to do something from observing someone doing things wrong.

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