It is fun
Both of your comments hurt in that way only the truth is capable of hurting.
It is cool
less about programming, more about programmers: just because you can code an app doesn’t mean you know jack shit about anything else… politics included
so many software engineers think they’re the only one who understands the world and that they are the one to have the final say in any discussion
i think that stems from their outrageous overpayment
He’s getting downvoted but he’s right.
The hubris of a dev thinking they can solve a non tech problem with tech that they know nothing about, it’s almost unmatched.
Everyone can code.
Myth: code can be ugly as long as it works, don’t spend company time on making it look good or on minor optimizations.
The truth is that you can tell when effort has been put into a job. Even if it just works, the lack of discipline means that in the end it will be difficult to maintain and probably will fail in unexpected situations.
Every language has its conventions, but if I spot more than a line of separation between blocks of code, that is a common telltale sign of noob. Run from that shit.
Lines of separation are bad? I like adding a few empty lines to denote a different logical section so it’s easier for me to read back later :c
The idea is that often you could be using actual logical separations (functions etc.) instead of whitespace. IMO whitespace has its place though, including for this.
uhh seen this shit with some rewrites with no regards to your code being idiomatic to the point of it all feeling almost verbatim. Like some PHP devs getting confused by the lack of classes in Go and instead of using method receivers and composition over inheritance creating one 250-line behemoth public function to replace a PHP class.
One line is fine if used wisely, everybody does it for readability. The issue is when you need more than one.
