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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Replying to @sarahmei
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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Replying to @Benudek @williampietri
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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Replying to @sarahmei @williampietri
naa, I just like it short & sweet ;-) I like your tweet btw essentially though !
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I'm reminded of a blog post... http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/blogging-theory-201-size-does-matter.html …
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