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Like I said, there's a bunch of people out there with a "code purity complex where their way of doing things is superior even if the actual code Works".
by tomlockwood 4y ago
Like I said, there's a bunch of people out there with a "code purity complex where their way of doing things is superior even if the actual code Works".
- hinkley 4y agoYou’re just repeating a mantra not engaging. Mostly what I deal with are people whose arguments boil down to “works for me” even when there’s evidence that it doesn’t. Thinking about improvement is hard, and a lot of people find a fictional success to be more fun than an objective one. We shouldn’t confuse “rewarding things are difficult” with “difficult things are rewarding” or “people who want difficult things are difficult people”. Most people are gaming the system. While pretending to play an infinite game, they’re mostly worried about getting the next paycheck with as little hassle as possible. Everybody does this to an extent, but many people make enemies of their future selves, which is not healthy. Then they run away from the problems they created, talking a big talk about Progress and bigger and better things when we all know they’re going to make the same mess again and again. Instead of doing the grownup thing and cleaning up their own messes. They get the same 3 years of experience five times in a row and call it 15 YOE.
- tomlockwood 4y ago> You’re just repeating a mantra not engaging. That's an interesting perspective because I feel like the things you're saying are not addressing that point: that "code purity" is a self-limiting and often self-congratulatory mantra.