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Keeping high quality in a code base either requires dedicated person/team.
There’s a profound difference between ugly code and tech debt. Many people don’t really understand the difference until they’ve struggled with it for a long time. They will alternately declare Tech Debt or YAGNI in wholly inappropriate situations.
Someone told me something along the lines of "Every event in your life can change your life entirely - you get into Harvard or you don't, you get the job or you don't, you win the tournament and go on to become a champion, or you give up on the sport when you lose. Every little decision can be a fork in your life, though most aren't." Sure, it's oversimplified, sure some "bad-seeming" things are good in the long run,…
All your detours and diversions add up to You, including the stuff you were afraid would never matter.
Life, by default, is suffering. The surprise is not the fact that there is suffering around the world, but how we managed to achieve the level of prolonged peaceful co-existence that we have today. We should act in such a way that suffering or chaos is reduced---however small such reduction may be. Suppose you had a choice between watching T.V. and washing the dishes. Watching T.V. means, perhaps, that your spouse wi…
I think a lot of people forget about the random act of kindness, and how it can go a long way towards making people much happier. It can be as simple as stopping to let someone cross the road, making your partner a sandwich, tidying the house, or even leaving a nice reply to a tweet.
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Speaking of dishwashing and life lessons. When I was in college (20 years ago) and sharing an apartment with 3 colleagues, the guys were leaving their dishes unwashed in the kitchen sink. Initially I washed my own dishes after finising a meal, only to find out the colleagues happily used my clean dishes then let them dirty in the sink. I realized I'm washing them twice: once when picking them dirty from the sink, was…
no but you can do like the Romans and break all their plates.
Sadly, after more than 20 years building software, _NEVER_ trust a business person. My faith in humanity had to have me bitten by this the hard way more than once.
Yeah, I'm surprised that they trust each other at all. What keeps them from bashing each other with sticks? When I see business people smile at each other and shaking hands, I cannot make sense of this in my mind. What's the point of smiling when both people couldn't care less if the other person dropped dead on the spot.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
You can never get back the time you waste. I'm talking on the years scale. The fact that it's never too late to make positive change in your life doesn't mitigate that.
This sounds like commonsense for most people. But I learnt this the hard way while drifting through my 20's in a mediocre career. Still rebuilding after going back to college.
If the ship is sinking, don't bail harder, get your butt onto a ship that _isn't_ sinking ASAP. It's much better for your mental health, and it's the logical free market thing to do....reallocating resources to more effective companies.
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I eat at restaurants everyday. I know I shouldn’t but it’s hard to change lifestyle...
You shouldn't if it has negative financial or medical effects on you. I eat out exclusively, and do so for less than the cost of groceries and with fantastic effects on my health, and I'm doing so in a very high cost of living city, too.
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"Our code is self-documenting. If you need documentation then the code isn't written well enough" -Assholes who don't know what it is like to work with mature code bases. - People who don't know how to write clean code
I agreed with this until my current job, when it was stated cheerfully by a guy whose code is so shit lousy that I want to do violence to him (an emotion I haven’t felt in probably ten years). Management thinks he’s brilliant. Everybody else thinks he’s an insane asshole. Just because you know people who can say this with sincerity and gravitas doesn’t mean there aren’t assholes. There are always assholes.