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I disagree -- there are many situations in which your writing must display both a very detailed understanding of a system, AND a very detailed understanding of
by ragona 7y ago
I disagree -- there are many situations in which your writing must display both a very detailed understanding of a system, AND a very detailed understanding of your audience.
- thfuran 7y agoAnd, similarly, you can code perfectly functional code that properly handles all the minutiae but is totally inconsistent with the general structure or style of the project and that is bad. The high-level considerations are still important there.
- ragona 7y agoAgreed! The intersection of coding and communicating is really interesting. That is my personal bar for a really phenomenal programmer — someone who can produce code that communicates ideally to both humans and computers. And this gets harder and harder depending on the task! It’s really tricky stuff.