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When I was 25 I could scan a 5000 line file in a few minutes and start making changes. I’m now a lot older than that. It takes me a few days to get completely h
by makerofthings 4y ago
When I was 25 I could scan a 5000 line file in a few minutes and start making changes. I’m now a lot older than that. It takes me a few days to get completely happy with a file of that size and start making changes.
When I was 25, I had a small number of heuristics and gotchas to look for, now I have thousands, it takes longer to consider them. Also, when I was 25 I would make the smallest change I could, now I tidy up the file and do a bit of light refactoring where I can make the code simpler. I serve a different purpose in the code now and I think it’s a more valuable one.
- jseban 4y ago> When I was 25, I had a small number of heuristics and gotchas to look for, now I have thousands, it takes longer to consider them. Exactly! You have a much more advanced thinking process, that will let you avoid a lot of mistakes, and let you be much faster in the long run/on average, only seemingly slow and sluggish at the beginning, because you don't jump to conclusions anymore.