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Am I wrong or does that title he's given himself directly contradict his dislike of code ownership? Or is it just he assumes he deserves credit for the code written by any of his subordinates?
Code ownership implies that 1) changes to that code are bottlenecked/gatekept by its “owner”; 2) code is siloed and there’s poor organizational collaboration culture.
“I am enabled to seek out the needed background and change what I need to move forward” vs “that’s not ‘our/my’ code, we can’t touch it. Let’s file a DEP ticket against that team and wait a few months”
that particular point likely refers to the fact that he prefers shared ownership: ie nobody should be “the one you go to for X part of the codebase”
Yeah, I threw up in my mouth a little when I read that.
Lol. Let’s ban accountability, refactoring, and debugging, never work alone, never coordinate, avoid productivity, and refuse ownership—then scream when things break, don’t integrate, and fall behind schedule.
"This is all your fault!" built-in. Why didn't you intuitively know what myX is supposed to do and how it's used?
Provocation just for "engagement" really. 102 comments so, to some degree, it works.
E: Guys, it's satire. Lol.
Let’s ban
overshot your mark. maybe you misunderstood what you read and that's why you're so needlessly het up.
I don’t see any ban of accountability, refactoring or debugging, coordination, or endorsement of screaming.
I recognize most of these as specific antipatterns that get adopted because some manager read a blog or no one actually had a clue was “agile” meant.
I recognize most of these as specific antipatterns that get adopted because some manager read a blog
Go ahead. Point out the anti-pattern baggage.
There are enough coders on here from before the post-dot-com made mentors extinct that I'm sure they'd love your specificity.
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That's great! I wouldn't want to work for him anyway.
Code Ownership
Lol did someone try and make him maintain the shitty code he wrote
Individual accountability
more likely a reference to someone being the 1 person you go to for a particular part of the codebase like they own it
Just build whatever you want on prod and disappear after the deadline so they can never ask you to update your code
Sorry the developer you are calling is out of scope.
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There are two types of software engineers: those who are anxious and those who are narcissistic and grandiose. This guy is easy to place in the latter category.
I was so happy when I got a job working with a guy who was super chill and a genius to boot, such an impossible combination to find.
Our mantra was pretty much do the best possible thing to reach the widest possible audience, nothing is off the table and no user is left behind completely. I learned such a wide variety of skills there. It went great for nearly a decade before everything went to shit because my guy had left and I was left to deal with a 3-1 managerial hell.
- ORM's
- Place ALL of the business logic in stored procedures.
- Eliminate the backend.
- Make the front end connect directly to the database.
- ~~Profit~~
- Introduce tons of bugs and terrible performance.
- Database is compromised within five minutes of going live.
No, just write a repository to expose domain operations and implements them using SQL directly. Trying to fake OO object graphs against a RDBMS with a super-complex and leaky ORM is just painful.
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I'm confused. Are you saying all of that is a consequence of not using ORMs? Because if so, that's absolutely not true. ORMs truly are complete trash.
Sounds like you were hurt by an ORM.
One huge benefit of an ORM is that it does type checking. it makes sure your tables exist, relationships are valid, etc, and it makes easy things easy. If you add a column, it'll make sure it gets populated, give you decent error messages, etc.
As long as you use a proper repository pattern setup and isolate DB interactions from the rest of the code, how you construct the queries is completely up to you. I try to use DTOs to communicate w/ the repo layer, so whether an ORM is used or direct SQL queries is largely an implementation detail.
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I have for years been pumped to create a sql only side project or sql + frontend
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Whatever this guy supposedly architects, it ain't software.
When you don't have a downvote button, all you get is an echo chamber
In an effort to make the post full of engagement bait, the dude ironically made it less engaging.
Remove every bullet point except Lombok, and you got yourself a proper flame war.
This feels like a facetious post because what. There’s no way he’s serious
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Lmao ok ill just follow best practices and end up inadvertently writing an orm from scrach then 🙆♀️
Hating on Lombok and setters simultaneously seems contradictory.
NGL I was on board at the first line. He lost me quickly after though
No mutable types? So like.. no lists? no for ... i++?
I get that there are alternative approaches, but I don't quite see why you'd want to go to that extreme with this idea? It's useful for some applications but even for a simple video game it's likely not helpful.
It's perfectly possible to work without mutability.
Is it desirable to be entirely without it? Probably not, but leaning immutable is definitely beneficial.
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There are non-mutable lists and every other data type.
https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/collections-2.13/overview.html
https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/collections-2.13/concrete-immutable-collection-classes.html
“for… i++” is easily replaced with a foreach, range, iterable, etc… in any language of reasonable capability.
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Ideal situation: single guy working from home, no pets. Neighbors describe him as "pretty quiet" or "I dunno."
Good riddance.
Which is why he doesn’t have a company of his own. He’s a terrible leader.
Wow, the only one I agree with here is MongoDB (and probably Lombok, I don't write Java), and that has more to do with their licensing issues than anything technical.
That's pretty impressive.
Here's my list:
- no-go list of languages - Java, PHP, Ruby, C++ (unless you absolutely need C++ for some domain)
- OOP - OOP should be isolated, not forced on every problem; many OOP advocates are dogmatic about injecting it everywhere
- waterfall - screw that noise, faster to market + faster feedback is generally better
That's really it, and I'm totally willing to mentor someone who likes the above if they're otherwise a good developer.
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