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The problem isn't intelligence, the problem is judgement. Many a smart person has built ridiculous and rickety towers of code, only understandable because they
by jdougan 3y ago
The problem isn't intelligence, the problem is judgement. Many a smart person has built ridiculous and rickety towers of code, only understandable because they are smart.
Good judgement mostly seems to come from bad judgement, failure, then picking the pieces up again while evaluating the causes. It also seems to require some emotional maturity and humility.
You are correct that the various dogmas are not useful until the mental attitude is right. After then they are superfluous.
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- avidphantasm 3y agoI like to think I tend to write code that others like because I am usually not the smartest person in the room. I strive to make my code simpler because I can’t understand less simple code. If I find an approach to solving a problem that feels too complicated to me, I usually keep looking until I find something simpler.