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I don't think this deserves the downvotes it is getting simply because there is some truth to the comment. A good friend of mine worked with a young developer
by Zelphyr 5y ago
I don't think this deserves the downvotes it is getting simply because there is some truth to the comment.
A good friend of mine worked with a young developer recently who was excited about what he was able to generate with a single npm command. When my friend, who has been writing software longer than this guy has been alive, calmly pointed out that the npm command had just generated 400 files and thousands of lines of code that didn't actually solve their problem, this guy got mad and went to complain to their manager.
- cratermoon 5y agoI'd be mildly ticked-off, too. The senior guy was being an ass.
- mkr-hn 5y agoI can easily imagine how it went down. "Wow! I can do so much with so little!" "Everything you just generated is wasteful and meaningless." The right way is to encourage that enthusiasm and guide them toward doing more useful work with the same power they just discovered.
- mkr-hn 5y agoWe only have your telling of your friend's telling of the story. This is rhetorically similar to saving a 50% quality jpeg as a 20% quality jpeg.