Programming

I like C# and Visual Studio

I like 1-index because its what I learned first, and you like 0-index because that's what you learned first

DRY means Do Repeat Yourself, when the alternative is cooking up some awful OOP abstraction

The only thing a GUI text editor can be better at than a terminal editor is making it easier to use the mouse.

If you can't find where you missed a closed parentheses, just add a bunch of them to the end of your project like this...

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... until your editor's syntax helper tells you it's good. I am very good at coding.

Oh I have some!

Computer science is still a hobby and has a lot to go through before it is an actual industry.

Developers are too often bad engineers.

Short development cycles are a bad thing.

POO is trash. It's a manager tool, not an engineering one.

My experience with people from university is that they have extremely strong opinions about things they don't know very much how they work outside theory. There is this syndrome that you have to do everything from scratch with low level languages and keep shitting on anything that uses abstraction to make your life easier.

I don't know why people in this industry have this need of feeling that they're better than others.

My mantra has always been to bring solutions not problems. Applying that to code reviews makes for a far more productive experience.

Rather than just pointing out errors in code help the developer with prompts towards the solution.

Or, if you're too lazy to explain why something shouldn't be done then why should another developer have to act on your criticism?

Abstraction will be the death of traditional software development as we know it

A lot of programmers need to work on their soft skills.

Write the whole thing, and only then, scrap it and rewrite it. This way you actually have a good understanding of the entire implementation when you are rewriting. When I refractor while writing my draft I will slow myself down and trip over myself, I'll be way more likely to rewrite something I've already rewritten.

Sure there is a limit to the size of projects this can work for, but even for massive projects they can still be broken into decently sized chunks. I'm just advocating for not rewriting function A as soon as you finish function B.

C# is fine

learn Haskell, write better code

Programming is the easy part, and a useless skill on its own.

If you can only program in one language, you can't program.

C++ is the single best language to learn programming.

Stupid mistakes you make are not bugs, at least not for you.

Doing this is a hot take, but "clean architecture" is a joke.

My company is obsessed with it.