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Comment by 🦀 jeang3nie

Re: "5 Things I’ve Learned in 20 Years of Programming"

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The part about TDD was nice, and I imagine a lot of people have had similar experience. I didn't think much of it myself until I forced myself to give it a try and realized how many bugs I was catching along the way. What's more, they were being caught much closer to the call site, making debugging that much easier.

Nice article overall. Thanks for sharing.

🦀 jeang3nie

2023-08-07 · 1 year ago

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🎵 xavi · 2023-08-08 at 08:57:

The article gave me sort of a "I am a middle-aged, American white programmer, so listen to me, you inferior junior human being" attitude, that of course I do not particularly agree with.

I agree with others here that code duplication is not *always* bad. Programming is often about making tradeoffs. However, it is true sometimes that some decisions are made, when possibly thinking for a better solution for a couple of hours could have avoided it.

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5 Things I’ve Learned in 20 Years of Programming

💬 ahappydeath [mod] · 3 comments · 3 likes · 2023-08-07 · 1 year ago