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> People who push "mostly working" code are hell on earth. Sure you spend 5 hours less on it right now, but it's going to cost literal days or weeks down the li
by lazyjones 8y ago
> People who push "mostly working" code are hell on earth. Sure you spend 5 hours less on it right now, but it's going to cost literal days or weeks down the line.
Wildly exaggerated, but I'll bite: it's still better to save 5 hours while you are bleeding money (before your product works) and spend 1 week to improve the "beauty" of your code while it's already paying your salary.
> “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.” ― Donald Knuth
That's a fine attitude for someone who wants to teach CS or explore programming as a hobby. For professionals, programs need to execute correctly and go into production ASAP. Emotional and mental cost to the programmer is of less importance.
- lm28469 8y ago> Emotional and mental cost to the programmer is of less importance. Only if you want it to be like that. It's as if an assembly worker from 1930 was telling his mates that working 90 hours a week and wasting his health for a few $ is ok because it's good for their bosses. Might be ok if you're the #1 in a SV startup, sure, but everywhere else I doubt it'll take you very far.