Ask HN: Is success related to the programming skill?

Posted by atmosx on Friday July 25, 2014 @05:52AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I see extremely skilled programmers around and others that are not brilliant or even bad judging by silly programming mistakes. I would like to know if you think that code quality is related to a product's succes in early stages.Thanks

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Re:Ask HN: Is success related to the programming skill? by patio11 on Friday July 25, 2014 @06:16AM (#8084457)

There are ways to turn programming skill into professional/career/product success, but it is neither necessary nor sufficient for professional/career/product success.

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Re:Ask HN: Is success related to the programming skill? by Kaizyn on Friday July 25, 2014 @08:46AM (#8084871)

For the most part, code quality does not matter once it exceeds a certain minimum value where the end users won't see obvious problems while using the system. Where poor quality will kill you is maintenance costs and effort over the longer term.

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Re:Ask HN: Is success related to the programming skill? by th1agofm on Friday July 25, 2014 @10:06AM (#8085225)

Not even close.

The success of the product is way more related to it's market fit, timing and business related things.

Many of the big software products today started out with very messy code. Check facebook old source code as an example.

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