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Re:Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017) by JanNash on Sunday January 04, 2026 @07:23AM (#46487293)
Thank you! Taking that refactoring advice at face value when I still was quite junior led to me writing an immensely over-abstracted framework that bit me in the butt for years afterwards when trying to debug or add a new feature. Wasn't easy to unlearn...
Re:Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017) by rasmus-kirk on Sunday January 04, 2026 @05:20PM (#46492926)
Thank God you did. I hear of seniors who still do this shit with no real sense of style because they just assume that over-abstracting everything is always the correct thing to do. You're learning, not unlearning!