What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad

Re:What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad by tom-thistime on Friday August 19, 2022 @09:18AM (#32520606)

For benefit of a friend new to HN (and anyone else who might be new here): Yes, the comments and the articles are almost separate, parallel discussions. The articles can be interesting in themselves, but for purposes of reading the comments, the articles are often just kind of inspirations or writing prompts.

So, yeah, the OP doesn't even mention code quality. The comments do. That's ok. It's just how the site works.

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Re:What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad by twic on Friday August 19, 2022 @01:33PM (#32523877)

HN maintainers should optimize page load time by just omitting the actual link to the article. The discussions would be pretty much the same.

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Re:What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad by yodsanklai on Friday August 19, 2022 @09:23AM (#32520652)

Article start with variable names (which pertains to code quality)

> Variable names are important because they communicate to the reader what’s happening. That’s their only job in code, so it’s important to name them well. Long verbose names don't cost anything:

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Re:What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad by johnthuss on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:00AM (#32521030)

Except in JavaScript ;)

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Re:What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad by blueblob on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:09AM (#32521132)

And legacy c/opengl, where the variables names tell you the return type...

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