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It's a shame the article is so egotistical, hyperbolic, and poorly edited. Also, not crediting obvious sources[1] for your punchlines smells like plagiarism. O
by bch 12y ago
It's a shame the article is so egotistical, hyperbolic, and poorly edited. Also, not crediting obvious sources[1] for your punchlines smells like plagiarism.
Otherwise, I really do like reading articles like this as touchstones for engineering and development.
[1] http://blog.codinghorror.com/coding-for-violent-psychopaths/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/coding-for-violent-psychopaths/
- d--b 12y agothanks for the link, and for the link inside of it [1]. It expresses the core problem a lot better than the original article! [1] http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-noble-art-of-maintenance-programming/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-noble-art-of-maintenance-pr...
- landongn 12y agoCredit where credit is due, that was lifted nearly wholesale from codinghorror. Wonder how you do liner notes with Medium. I'm a terrible writer, so the rest of the items I've stolen or otherwise isn't to stand on the shoulders of giants like Atwood, it's to reinforce a point the best way I knew how. I lifted all of the comments from stackoverflow, too: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-c... I'm curious where the egotistical portions were, though. I wanted to at least prefix some of the more "thou shalt" sections toward the end with a disclaimer that they're personal opinions on how I operate. Glad you liked it, though!