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Software development topics I've changed my mind on

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873 points belter | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 09:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.537s | source
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latexr ◴[05 Feb 25 11:39 UTC] No.42947128[source]▶
> Most won't care about the craft. Cherish the ones that do, meet the rest where they are

> (…)

> People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia remain insane weirdos to me. Focus on more important things.

What you call “stressing over minutiae” others might call “caring for the craft”. Revered artisans are precisely the ones who care for the details. “Stressing” is your value judgement, not necessarily the ground truth.

What you’re essentially saying is “cherish the people who care up to the level I personally and subjectively think is right, and dismiss everyone who cares more as insane weirdos who cannot prioritise”.

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1. patrick451 ◴[06 Feb 25 21:20 UTC] No.42966606[source]▶
It's a strange assertion to claim that people who care about formatting care about the craft more. IMO, it's the opposite: people who care about formatting prefer to talk and think about the periphery of programming not the actual act of programming itself. For the record, I reject the usually offered claim that the most important attribute is consistency. I have an easier to reading code written in a different style than understanding somebody with a different accent, but nobody is claiming we should only hire teams from the same regions of the same country.