alt Hacker NewsHow do you explain to a junior this pile of messy code isn’t crap but is actually years of integrated knowledge ? That the most common principles discussed in computer science (OOP, SOLID, DRY etc.) are actually just little guides that aren’t to be taken to the extremes ?
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Yokohiii • yesterday at 11:59 PM
It's a dice roll to keep the junior around until he unlearns the wrong bits.
micromacrofoot • yesterday at 11:57 PM
tell them they need to turn a profit as quickly as possible
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Here's a 26-year old post on the exact topic of messiness you raise:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
A decade ago, I was sitting in on a meeting about a rewrite and, before I could say anything, someone in the first year of her career asked why anyone thought a rewrite would be any cleaner once all the edge cases were handled. Afterwards, I asked her where she learned this. She said "I don't know, it just seems kind of obvious." She went on to be a great engineer and is now a great manager.