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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by throwaheyy on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:48PM (#33662813)
No, it’s not. In fact, if the fanciness of your code is the only thing that contributes its salience, that’s a negative.

10 lines of salient code could be the entry point into some subsystem you wrote, or where you integrate with another system. It wouldn’t look fancy but it’s salient.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by vvxujfihg on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:12PM (#33666014)
I can see this making sense for type signatures and data structures—or class definitions, interface definitions. Not so sure about "entry points". Contracts, abstractions. Typical Haskell code would really lend itself to being summarized like this—typeclass instances, etc.
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