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Duplication Isn't Always an Anti-Pattern

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52 points birdculture | 2 comments | 02 Dec 25 08:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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theoldgreybeard ◴[07 Dec 25 14:28 UTC] No.46181901[source]▶
I had the pleasure of Sandi Metz coming to a company I worked for and going us a “boot camp” of sorts for all of the engineering principles she espouses and it had a profound impact on how I view software development. Whatever the company paid for her to come - it was worth every penny.

“Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction”

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1. breckenedge ◴[07 Dec 25 14:32 UTC] No.46181924[source]▶
Sandi’s books and conference talks are excellent. My faves:

https://www.poodr.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJjHfa5yxlU

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2. theoldgreybeard ◴[07 Dec 25 14:40 UTC] No.46181983[source]▶
Poodr is one of the best programming books ever written. Even if you don’t program in Ruby you should read it anyway (and pick up a bit of Ruby just for fun) because there are lots of great concepts to internalize that are useful in almost all programming languages.