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Re:Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well by baz00 on Saturday August 19, 2023 @07:10AM (#37187570)
There is so much wisdom in here.

Fundamentally, don't make life hard for yourself, or others.

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Re:Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well by marcosdumay on Saturday August 19, 2023 @08:26AM (#37188052)
And yet defaulting into grug-mode is clearly self-defeating.

The wisdom only applies to the places where it applies, and there is no wisdom there on telling where those places are.

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Re:Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well by baz00 on Saturday August 19, 2023 @08:31AM (#37188089)
It's not really. Grug solves problems. Grug does not create problems that need to be solved to solve other problems.
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Re:Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well by marcosdumay on Saturday August 19, 2023 @08:38AM (#37188158)
> Grug solves problems.

Well, except for the problem of too much grug.

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Re:Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well by sph on Saturday August 19, 2023 @08:56AM (#37188302)
When a company measures developer productivity in code added and feature delivered, it creates a perverse incentive that attracts people that really love to write a lot of code and building mountains out of molehills.

The best engineer (and not only, see that famous quote by Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord) often is the lazy one. It was a known notion that somehow disappeared around the turn of the millennium.

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Re:Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well by baz00 on Saturday August 19, 2023 @10:27AM (#37189132)
Indeed.

We're still around. We're just so far up the hierarchy now that the wisdom can't be pushed down easily.

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