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I think that to be a good developer you have to learn to work with limited resources (time, bad software, unclear specifications). The challenge is to design so
by nothingisnil 8y ago
I think that to be a good developer you have to learn to work with limited resources (time, bad software, unclear specifications). The challenge is to design something not bad with scarce resourses, and that is an art. Moreover, I think that good developers learn to get satisfaction when they succeed to designed something valuable with very limited resources. Curiously, I wasn't able to use firefox reading mode in this page, don't know if it an on purpose decision to limit users choice, but to overcome this I copied the content and opened with notepad, ajusted the font size and enabled line wrap. So finally I read it my way.
Edited because I find it hard to express myself in English.
- treerock 8y agoJust had a look at the source and found this. /* Yeah, there's some shitty code here. There are some things that shouldn't be done. I did them. Sometimes, I had my reasons. Sometimes, I was just being lazy. But guess what? You're sitting there reading the source on some guy's blog. So fuck you. */
- laszlokorte 8y agoI just took a look as well and found this [0]: <!-- So this guy we just interviewed at my current job wrote this little script to see if a product update for some company had come out. Every 10 seconds the script urllib'ed the page, checked the length of the html - literally len(html) - against the length it was last time it checked. He wrote a blog post about this script. A freaking blog post. He also described himself as "something of a child prodigy" despite, in another post, saying he couldn't calculate the area of a slice of pizza because "area of a triangle with a curved edge is beyond my Google-less math skills." Seriously dude? I haven't taken geometry in 20 years, and pi*r^2/8 seems pretty freaking obvious. The script also called a ruby script to send him a tweet which another script was probably monitoring to text his phone so he could screenshot the text and post to facebook via instagram. I think the "millenials" get undeserved flak, as all generations do, for being younger and prettier and living in a different world. But this kid calling himself a prodigy is a clear indication of way too many gold stars handed out for adequacy, so to ensure that no such abominable script ever does anything besides bomb somebody's twitter account, this comment shows up exactly 50% of the time, and I encourage others to do the same. --> [0] view-source:https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
- scott-smith_us 8y ago> this kid calling himself a prodigy is a clear indication of way too many gold stars handed out for adequacy Maybe, but people like this have been around since long before they started handing out participation awards. I think it has more to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect