>I don’t mean we’re mean-spirited. I just mean that we are merciless. You’ll notice that I left the comment “Beep!” on the imports of every file you touched. Wh

>I don’t mean we’re mean-spirited. I just mean that we are merciless. You’ll notice that I left the comment “Beep!” on the imports of every file you touched. What I meant was, “Your imports violate our standard convention—we order them by built-ins, then third party, and then project level,” but that was too much to type on every file. Translation: "We have extremely strong opinions on what materials to use for our nuclear power plant's bike shed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality There's seems to be an inverse relationship between how much effort a team spends on surface details of code (e.g. does it adhere to linting standards/are the lines < 80 characters/imports ordered?) and how much time and effort a team spends on deeper architectural issues (loose coupling, de-duplication, un-reinventing the wheel, transforming imperative to declarative code, etc.)