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• Stupid things (Score:2)

  by petdance (2468)

  "If it's stupid, and it works, it's not stupid."

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  • Re:Stupid things (Score:1)

    by zatoichi (4897)

    Hoo boy! I do not subscribe to that as I have done things that "work" but even I admit that the solution was "stupid".
    • Re:Stupid things (Score:2)

      by petdance (2468)

      But what is "stupid"? I think programmers have an all-too-common tendency to worry about the "right" way of doing things from a programming point of view, and ignoring the business reasons, whatever "business" that may be.

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      • Re:Stupid things (Score:2)

        by Ovid (2709)

        Curiously, we recently had an applicant who seemed really solid, good skills, nice background, but kept talking about their desire to write perfect code. There was a great feeling of unease about whether or not this individual would be sometimes be willing to write code that was less than perfect in order to meet deadlines or odd requirements (we never found out. He doesn't work for us.)

        By the way, will you be at OSCON this year?
        • Re:Stupid things (Score:2)

          by petdance (2468) <andy@petdance.com> on 2004.07.06 9:46 (#32173) Homepage Journal

          Yessir.

          How To Get Hired [oreillynet.com]

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          • Re:Stupid things (Score:2)

            by Ovid (2709)

            D'oh! And I had read that, too ...

            See you there.