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The story of Max, a real programmer

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129 points surprisetalk | 1 comments | 30 Jun 25 12:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.267s | source
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throwaway2037 ◴[03 Jul 25 13:13 UTC] No.44454700[source]▶
This part really hits home. The first time I got to see a huge enterprise C project, I could not believe how simple the code was. Few to no tricks.

    > To be perfectly honest, as a teenager I never thought Max was all that great at programming. I thought his style was overly-simplistic. I thought he just didn't know any better. But 15 years on, I now see that the simplicity that I dismissed as naive was actually what made his code great.
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1. mrheosuper ◴[04 Jul 25 02:45 UTC] No.44460731[source]▶
I saw the opposite in many Rust codebase. in some repoes I see some dev like to put every smartest trick in Rust book that makes me feel uncomfortable because it takes me a while to understand exactly what they are doing.