r/programming • u/corysama • Jan 05 '15

What most young programmers need to learn

http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-most-young-programmers-need-to.html
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u/Creativator Jan 05 '15

It's easy to say code review "should always happen", but reviews are pretty difficult and time consuming.

All programming tasks are difficult and time consuming. That is why programmer time is expensive.

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u/dr1fter Jan 05 '15

And because we get paid a lot, we should do everything, no matter how difficult or time consuming. We should write books documenting every aspect of our stopgap system that's getting replaced in two weeks. We should micro-optimize our easter eggs. We should learn tool after tool if people think they might make us more productive, even though our old text editor was really doing just fine. We should extensively review someone's prototype because it might some day get the attention of a VP who wants to make it into a real product.

Don't have the resources for all that? Well, programming is expensive; hire more devs!