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Re:Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at ... by delecti on Friday March 06, 2026 @09:19AM (#47275187)
I worked with a junior dev who suddenly got really excited about Clean Code. Every example he brought up left me feeling that there was a kernel of good advice, but the book wanted you to take it to such an extreme that it would result in shitty code.
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Re:Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at ... by jghn on Friday March 06, 2026 @10:48AM (#47276463)
> there was a kernel of good advice, but the book wanted you to take it to such an extreme that it would result in shitty code

I see you're familiar with Uncle Bob's handiwork

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Re:Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at ... by teddyh on Friday March 06, 2026 @11:02AM (#47276687)
There is now a second edition of that book which has supposedly been rewritten to fix that.
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Re:Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at ... by ansgri on Friday March 06, 2026 @09:46AM (#47275521)
I feel like half of junior programmers are susceptible to this.
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Re:Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at ... by oldestofsports on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:56PM (#47278572)
It strongly pushes for max 3 LOC per function, and I am not even joking.
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