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Bought it with work money but would be unhappy spending $38 of my own since its pretty short and a lot is common sense. Some good nuggets of info in there thoug

• GuB-42 3y ago
  > a lot is common sense Probably the best compliment one can make of such a book. Common sense tends to be lacking when it comes to coding practices, and books about it don't really help. Instead, they tend to go with practices that are completely detached from reality. Also, things that require unreasonable effort, so that if you don't do it because you are too neurotypical for that, then "you are doing it wrong" and if it doesn't work then it is not the author's fault. And even if it common sense in that that's what every experienced programmer is already doing, then, still great. First because not every programmer is an experienced programmer, obviously. And even if you are, seeing it writing helps with consolidation. So really, you are getting me very interested right now.
• ghostpepper 3y ago
  I thought a lot of it was common sense too but I've been coding for 15+ years. I wonder how much of it is common sense to someone with less experience.
• joshka 3y ago
  Perhaps a good metric for how much this should be worth would be to ask whether buying this book for a junior developer with your own money would save you that amount in the long term. Based on the article only, and the amount of times I've personally had to have similar discussions, I'd say it's worth that amount at least (and likely more).