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Re:Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016) by dexwiz on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:03PM (#27992354)
In the last 5 years I have probably written 100k+ lines of production code. My most celebrated feature was about 100 lines to store a single flag in a per user store.
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Re:Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016) by newsyyswen on Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:32AM (#27992807)
Way to describe the engineer/business disconnect.

You are proud of the complex problems which you have solved over the years. The business is proud of the little widget that made everyone's jobs a bit easier.

I've seen people take this lesson to heart and go full Wally.

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Re:Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016) by dexwiz on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:02AM (#27997354)
It was a little widget, just needed a bit of state persisted across sessions. The pain point was at page load, so about as far as most business pays attention. Also I do feel like it caused me to go full Wally without realizing it.
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Re:Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016) by gjvc on Thursday July 29, 2021 @05:57AM (#27994668)
>I've seen people take this lesson to heart and go full Wally.

Who is Wally?

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Re:Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016) by benhurmarcel on Thursday July 29, 2021 @09:40AM (#27996402)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_(Dilbert)
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