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Spend 99% of the time thinking, 1% of the time typing.

• beachstartup 10y ago
  yes and half of that 1% of typing should be commenting and documenting! the trick is to remember, you're commenting for you, because you're the one that's going to forget all this stuff in a few months and have to figure it out at the worst possible time. sounds a little weird but i always liked commenting my code. it felt like i was bragging to myself about how clever i was.
  • brianwawok 10y ago
    When I find myself writing a comment, 9 out of 10 times I pause and think. I can usually clean up the code so I don't need a comment. Comments in a codebase often lie. Someone makes a statement then code changes, making it a lie. A comment that is a lie adds negative value. I think more than 1 comment per 100 lines of code means you should think more and refactor more and comment less.