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Pai Mei mustache, sits on a rock meditating and dispensing advice to juniors, quotes Martin Fowler by heart, seems to never touch a keyboard but every commit wi
by thedevindevops 6y ago
Pai Mei mustache, sits on a rock meditating and dispensing advice to juniors, quotes Martin Fowler by heart, seems to never touch a keyboard but every commit will replace entire module(s) flawlessly, demonstrating high level architectural knowledge that lies on the far side of the organisation's learning curve.
- dave_sid 6y agoHahahahaha. This is the funniest thing I’ve read on HN.
- whatshisface 6y ago>but every commit will replace entire module(s) flawlessly That's big commits, you're not supposed to do that. Masters commit individual characters that replace entire modules flawlessly.
- tachyonbeam 6y agoEvery module Pai Mei implements fits on a single page of his 80-column terminal, including comments. He manages this brevity not with obscure one-liners, but through algorithmic simplicity. Every module is precisely as complex as it needs to be to accomplish its purpose, no more, no less.
- barbarbar 6y agoPai Mei never deletes or modifies a single character. Every keystroke is perfect and can only be as it was initially.
- voxic11 6y agoHe never said the commit will be big. He just said the commit will "replace entire module(s) flawlessly" which you seem to acknowledge can be sometimes done with as little as a single character.
- jgwil2 6y agoHe squashes commits on merge.
- CoolGuySteve 6y agoThe Master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao.