> my way to feel good is to look back at all the long dead techs that I didn't bother to learn. That's how I feel about design patterns. Talk about the most u

> my way to feel good is to look back at all the long dead techs that I didn't bother to learn. That's how I feel about design patterns. Talk about the most useless pile of academic bullshit that gets overemphasized in terms of what "every programmer" must know before going into an interview. Although there are some domains where they may be necessary to know of the top of one's head, for the most part there's usually no utility in filling your head with individual ideas that worked in one circumstance but may lead to bad patterns in another. I'm so glad I gave up memorizing design patterns, especially given that many employers seem to have lost interest in trivia questions about design patterns as well.