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Making things work. Learning forever. Beware GIGO.

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@critical_codger @bdjoetsu That's a long time!

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The last sentence is a quote from a good software engineering book, can you guess which?

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Start with visibility.

What can be seen, is more easily understood than what cannot be seen.

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Shall we wait until we realize we will die?

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"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I have ever encountered to help me make the big choices in my life.

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Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

You are already naked. There is no reason to not follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

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@antoshkapooh Haha, me too. I am not sure there is a way to not be. It is how you act "under" that confusion what matters, I guess 😁

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In our profession, making software, there are so many ways to do any thing, no matter big or little. It's mind-blowing.

No surprise so many people in and near the profession are often confused.

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Where do the people sit down when you happen to be the first guest in a restaurant enjoying your meal?

I heard in Greece they sit down closer to you.

Well, in Japan, they sit down at the place removed from you the most.

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One of the reasons why I love his books is because he gives the reader a chance to see behind the curtain, what a life of professional in medicine looks like on a day-to-day basis. A chance that is hardly possible to get otherwise. 5/5

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I don't remember how I found about Atul Gawande's book first time. But that first book made me the fan of his writing.

Atul Gawande is a surgeon, a professor and an author.

I read all of his books by now and thought I might share a tiny piece from his book Better.1/5 #books

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Of course a bulletpoint list has a close to zero value with no story behind it. I thought it might raise an interest in some fo you, though, and perhaps prompt you to get his book.

I can certainly tell that his books bear plenty of valuable insights for one to discover.4/5

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#cleancode

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When you develop liking for certain way of doing things it is always good to check the alternatives and to look at what the opponents of your preferred method are saying.

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I don't think it is a reason to reject the clean code principles, though.

If we decompose our system well, we can implement performance critical components in optimized way.

What else is there that we compromise choosing to write clean code?

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