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I wish more people simply were happy with using themselves whatever set of beliefs/techiques they deemed best (abstraction, duplication, whatever), preaching no

• hinkley 3y ago
  When your job is mentoring, RCA or cleaning up after other people (hello) then these aren’t opinions and aesthetics. They’re empirical evidence and/or coping mechanisms. Invalidating people’s coping mechanisms without proposing your own never goes over well. And sometimes even then. When diagnosing a production issue, we don’t have the luxury of entertaining five different ways to solve the same problem. And code smells slow debugging-under-the-gun because most bugs are in code smells, so they draw your attention only to prove to be a false signal. If you don’t do any of these things, then it’s challenging to have empathy for or understanding of the people who do. The people keeping the wheels on deserve the benefit of the doubt. In fact anyone who will stand up and fix problems when they arise deserves a bigger vote on how things get done. Everyone else’s opinions are theoretical rather than vocational.