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As someone getting close to 50, inexperience also seems to correlate with the ability to hold more in short term memory.
by collyw 4y ago
As someone getting close to 50, inexperience also seems to correlate with the ability to hold more in short term memory.
- CoastalCoder 4y agoAgreed. Same age, same experience. I'm also finding myself more allergic to unnecessary code complexity / non-standard designs, because they impede my ability to work with the code base. It's still a little painful to no longer be the smartest person in the room, but I think it makes me a better champion for regular programmers who will need to touch the code.
- collyw 4y agoI may not be the "smartest" in the room in terms of raw compute power of my brain, but as a result I'll write better code (more maintainable, easier for the next dev to understand). I want my code to be easy to follow. One of my personal rules I have through experience, is if I revisit a bit of code that I wrote a while ago, and I can't understand it easily, it's probably time to refactor it.