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It is absurd that a smart hacker is 30x better than a mediocre hacker. I consider myself slightly above average, and I look at the smartest hackers' code on gi
by jcampbell1 16y ago
It is absurd that a smart hacker is 30x better than a mediocre hacker. I consider myself slightly above average, and I look at the smartest hackers' code on github, and it is not 30x better at delivering customer value than mine. Maybe 2x at best. Many times the code delivers 1% of the value of my code because it is full of architecture astronat garbage that I am not smart enough to write.
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- T-hawk 16y ago> It is absurd that a smart hacker is 30x better than a mediocre hacker. How maintainable, readable, understandable, and extendable is their code? It's well within possibility that changes and enhancements could take 30x longer to develop and test and deploy for a mediocre hacker on a disorganized platform than for a smart hacker on a well-factored codebase. Architecture astronauting is a valid and legitimate criticism, but it's also quite possible to make an application extensible without going overboard.