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Re:Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptio... by davidivadavid on Friday July 09, 2021 @09:54PM (#27790471)
That's one of my pet peeves in this (recurring) discussion.

If you're a programmer, and you're telling me that every time you work you have to reconstruct the state of a system so large you can barely hold it in your head, maybe you should invest in learning about modularity, abstraction, or just... taking notes?

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Re:Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptio... by ipaddr on Saturday July 10, 2021 @12:41AM (#27791160)
The luxury of being able to design every system you work on isn't shared by many. Being able to hold the details of a complex process is one of the key traits that will allow you to succeed with legacy codebases or difficult languages.

You can try to refactor everything into a perfect state but business isn't going to wait.

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