I talk a lot about how you can’t be a great developer without great communication skills, but I don’t think people grok how _directly_ your communication skills are reflected in your codebase. Let me give you an example.
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I like the threeeaaaddd, but it’s so long isn’t ironic you talk about hard to read code and need so long to make your point :-)
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Some points are subtle and take a lot of words to explain well. You can't tl;dr subtlety. Also, code has multiple paths and this thread has only one: statement; statement; statement; etc
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## should be 3 letters: KiS ;-)
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gender gun ;-)
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If you can’t focus long enough to read 35 tweets, you’re not going to do well as a software developer. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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naa, I just like it short & sweet ;-) I like your tweet btw essentially though !
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I think more people (on twitter) will read a twitter thread than click on a link to a blog post. People can also react to individual thoughts within a thread. And a blog post can be produced later as well, not instead.
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nope, that's not what irony means; also, you should show some respect
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Actually it’s a perfectly acceptable example of irony.
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nuh-uhh!
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Hm? The thread wasn’t hard to read. Each tweet was a thought, each followed naturally from the one before, and it all was just as long as it needed to be. Just like a good codebase.
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Rude. But it IS ironic that you “like” a thread about communication but didn’t double check that your sentence could be parsed.
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