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I encourage my devs with a similar mantra: treat your code like cattle, not like pets.
by cheschire 7y ago
I encourage my devs with a similar mantra: treat your code like cattle, not like pets.
- anonsivalley652 7y agoThe "big idea" folks typically go further by treating their ideas like their offspring and insulate critiques of those ideas from the big, scary world of reality. Also, making an analogy to "cattle" sends the wrong message to the demographics of developers these days; I would replace that with something inanimate.
- BookPage 7y agohow about crops? or something like bonsai vs cacti?
- solipsism 7y agoHouseplants vs crops?
- mandelbrotwurst 7y agoNot all of us are fearful of apt metaphors. Hard eye roll. Excuse me while I kill some processes.
- catach 7y agoA metaphor ceases to be apt when a good portion of your audience interprets your meaning in the opposite way that you intended.
- mandelbrotwurst 7y agoI suppose whether that's true depends on whether you are looking for a metaphor that is technically accurate and descriptive or one that is perceived as such by your audience. I'm aware that there is value in both of those, and as such am willing to strive for both, but moreso to the extent that I trust that those with whom I am communicating are doing the same. In this case, I'm not sure that good faith is there.
- sgt 7y agoI guess some terminology has to be changed for the snowflakes.
- justizin 7y agomy version of this is something like: write all code hoping that you will one day delete it
- jariel 7y agoMy gosh man that's a brilliant quote. I'm going to use it.
- CamperBob2 7y agoI hope you don't outsource a lot of work to India...
- econcon 7y agoPeople used to say this in system administration for their servers/instances/virtual machines.