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Hang out with mechanical engineers and it won't be long until you hear, "best part is no part". Best code is no code.
by jeffrallen 3y ago
Hang out with mechanical engineers and it won't be long until you hear, "best part is no part".
Best code is no code.
- sitzkrieg 3y agothis is why deleting code is so great. a lot easier time than the MEs too
- adolph 3y agohttps://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html Some of the managers decided that it would be a good idea to track the progress of each individual engineer in terms of the amount of code that they wrote from week to week. They devised a form that each engineer was required to submit every Friday . . . . Bill Atkinson, the author of Quickdraw and the main user interface designer, . . . was just putting the finishing touches on the optimization when it was time to fill out the management form for the first time. When he got to the lines of code part, he thought about it for a second, and then wrote in the number: -2000. . . . they stopped asking Bill to fill out the form, and he gladly complied.
- datadrivenangel 3y agoThe code without code is the eternal code. All other code requires updating dependencies.
- phpisthebest 3y agoYou mean a No Code Solution like PowerApps :)
- toppy 3y agohttps://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
- zoogeny 3y agoEarly in my career I worked with an engineer more senior than me who was responsible for performance optimization. He once told me "the fastest thing you can do is nothing at all" which was his way of saying it is better to find unnecessary steps to eliminate rather than making necessary steps execute faster.
- Jensson 3y agoCode isn't a product, code is the blueprint for the product. Have you heard mechanical engineers say "no blueprint is the best blueprint"?
- jeffrallen 3y agoI've heard "grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain't!" Close enough.