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A couple of senior developer best practices that I can relate to, especially: “Avoid, at all costs, arriving at a scenario where the ground-up rewrite starts to look attractive.” and “Nobody cares about the golden path. Edge cases are our entire job. Think about ways in which things can fail. Think about ways to try to make things break.” link: https://qntm.org/devphilo…

A couple of senior developer best practices that I can relate to, especially:

“Avoid, at all costs, arriving at a scenario where the ground-up rewrite starts to look attractive.”

and

“Nobody cares about the golden path. Edge cases are our entire job. Think about ways in which things can fail. Think about ways to try to make things break.”

link: https://qntm.org/devphilo

via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42920285

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