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Know what "damages your code base"?
Pressure
Lack of communication
No culture of quality
Lack of reviews
Lack of designing features together
Cowboys
Overworked people
That CTO who pushes to master Sunday night
Just adding features on top of another
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I think everyone underestimates the agility bonus startups get from not having to deal with the amassed technical debt from decisions made 5, 10, 15 years ago..
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Problem solving in programming for me:
initially, you lack detailed understanding of the problem domain, and end up with a complicated solution-
some weeks later, you much better understand the problem, and your final solution becomes much simpler.
anyone else can relate?
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let's not exaggerate nitter.gq/javorszky/status/99824…
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I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the Heroic Warriors infiltrated or surveilled the Skeletor Campaign for Political Purposes - & if any such demands were made by arseholes within the He-Man Administration!
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What happens when a Japanese person gets the job to come up with "typical American names"
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Contemplating a new interview process where I give the candidate this list in advance and ask them to pick 3-6 of them that they think they're really good at and then come to the interview ready to convince me that they are. gigamonkeys.com/engineering/
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I know I’m a broken recor on this, but the MacBook Pro has the umbest goamn keyboar.
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“I don’t need macros, they’re too complicated and not useful,” says the programmer as they use Flow with JSX with Babel with two dozen plugins and maintain two hundred line webpack configs for code with machine-checked comments that parses CSS in template strings at runtime and—
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To Serve Man, with Software blog.codinghorror.com/to-ser…
