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What you said includes the decision I mentioned.
by username90 6y ago
What you said includes the decision I mentioned.
- valenterry 6y agoHm, I don't know where you got this idea from... I certainly didn't mean it like that.
- username90 6y agoThen write down what you mean, people aren't mind readers. However you will find it quite hard to write down what you mean in this case since your statement doesn't work even if you talk about other situations. Like should you hire a guy to manually set a field in new entries in the database every night instead of writing a short script to do it for you? That is a non code solution, so your answer would be yes. But I'd say no, that is a dumb solution. You could say "But don't follow this rule when it obviously does apply", then I say that figuring out when the rule applies and doesn't apply is a part of being a great software engineer. Short platitudes like what you wrote sounds great but are actually mostly nonsense.
- valenterry 6y agoI'll give you an example about how it can be interpreted: A good engineer stops unrealistic/bad ideas before they even reach a point where people start to think about how the idea could be carried out in detail.