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by Zetice 3y ago
We? I didn’t know this had a name or was formally recognized, and at best I had an intuition for it rather than an explicit understanding of what was going on. This article solidified the concept for me, and I’m grateful. Why so cynical?
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by Zetice 3y ago
Your “craft” is not to write code, it’s to solve problems. If you can’t be proud of the problem you’ve solved, you are no engineer. That’s the main difference between an engineer and a scientist.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Your “market” can be an internal customer.
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by Zetice 3y ago
I'm just using "good" here as defined by the parent comment I replied to, to make the point that I believe the engineers as he described wouldn't value solving problems as much as they value "good" code.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Depends on the field, but what I work on generally evolves so much over time that by the time I'm ready for a rewrite, the "edge cases" I had to account for when I started are either solved, partially solved, or can be isolat
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by Zetice 3y ago
Give me engineers who value solving problems, sometimes with code, over “good” engineers every single day of the week.
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by Zetice 3y ago
The point I'm trying to make is that the pursuit of "good" code is futile, as it does take more effort to achieve than writing functioning code. But in a way you're right; if there is no to ensuring your code follows m
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by Zetice 3y ago
It absolutely is, though many people would agree with you.
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by Zetice 3y ago
I would rather write “bad” code that lasts long enough to be inherited than write perfect code that sits idle in a repo because I missed the market.
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by Zetice 3y ago
The problem with this “maintainability” argument is the presumption a) that it will be maintained (note I recommended rewriting frequently) or that b) it’s in conflict with meeting business objectives.
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by Zetice 3y ago
You misunderstand; nothing about what I suggest says you shouldn’t write, “perfect extensible modular code with dull documentation and tests.” If that’s what you need to do to solve the problem, do that. The point is to stop focusing on th
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by Zetice 3y ago
As a student it’s useful if only because professors don’t freak out if you say you got your answer from Google, vs. saying you got it from ChatGPT.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Separately, if you won’t be dissuaded from this pursuit, check out redis.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Give up on “good code”. Its pursuit is how junior devs pesters senior devs based on a delusion that such a thing is possible. Good code is working code, code that pays the bills. Focus instead on writing code you can throw away easily, co
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by Zetice 3y ago
Huh, I did. Maybe it only works for some people!
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by Zetice 3y ago
Have you tried Googling something factual lately? Bard just gives you the answer.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Not-for-profit institutions are exempt.
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by Zetice 3y ago
I started this discussion, and it never went anywhere but where I originally said.
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by Zetice 3y ago
During your review of previous comments, did you observe the context in which "cost" is discussed? Was it in amorphous "value of your time" concepts or was it in concrete, "This cost 1.5 million dollars that we pai
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by Zetice 3y ago
This is an abjectly terrible way to estimate the value of your time, for the reasons I already outlined, among many others.
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by Zetice 3y ago
This presumes falsely that you can come up with accurate numbers for those questions, or that the overhead involved in managing people is then quantifiable concretely. ...it also presumes that any of that is actually realistic; I wonder wha
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by Zetice 3y ago
No, in no way at all is what you just described anything resembling a "contradiction". If you've used Google Docs or Libre Office for more than 5 seconds you'd know that. If you want to nationalize Microsoft, petition y
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by Zetice 3y ago
Hard is not impossible, and if you want to put strange moral constraints on who you work for, that's your cross to bear.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Your time does not have a very "direct" dollar amount, this is false.
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by Zetice 3y ago
That's not the "cost" being discussed in the article, it's explicitly referring to dollar amounts, therefore the contextualized discussion is also about dollar amounts.
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by Zetice 3y ago
...it is free? It costs me nothing to send out an email.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Yes? You can work decades in many careers without touching a Microsoft product. Ut more importantly, you have no right to Microsoft products, and it regularly blows my mind when people try to argue otherwise. Besides, if your beliefs are s
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by Zetice 3y ago
Wait, are tou seriously suggesting you do have an inherent right to use the services of a private company?
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by Zetice 3y ago
The world does work one way; you ask for what you want. Even the “guessers” are asking for what they want eventually, when they’re sufficiently embarrassed…
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by Zetice 3y ago
The answer to this is to not agree to it (your “chance” is to stop using the service).

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