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by jef_leppard 4y ago
Ok I'll be the contrarian. My team transitioned to agile about a year ago. The difference has been dramatic. We ship faster, are way more focused, able to prioritize effectively, and don't burn out committing to unrealistic delive
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Goodbye useEffect(youtube.com)
1 points by jef_leppard 4y ago|0 comments
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
Yep. You said it better than I could. There are a lot better ways to do control flow than passing in a flag. Inversion of control being another great example.
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
Eh maybe. Theres no hard and fast rules in this business for sure but when I'm dealing with pure business logic, if I am passing flags in that make the function behave in more than one way, I'll try my damndest to refactor until t
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
If you find yourself passing in flags to change behavior, it sounds like you should just have two functions. For other cases, an enum might serve your needs better as it gives you more options as your codebase grows. That said, I wouldn&#x2
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
Not really a fan of these listicles of boxes to check to get successful. That said there is one really great gem in there: "You don't want to be in a career where people who have been doing it for two years can be as effective as
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
OOP is not the problem. You can write shit in Haskell and elixir too. I should know. I’ve done it!
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
I worked on a tax app. Total nightmare. I remember having to adjust tax rate for a couple parishes in Louisiana and a city in Florida for example. Trying to come up with a readable, testable, way to get that done was something I tell ya.
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by jef_leppard 4y ago
I’m a musician who can’t read music notation and found it hard to pick up when I’ve tried. I assume I’m the target demographic for this system. At first glance I can’t for the life of me understand why I’d put the time into learning this. F