Sort of like how you can clean up a house and not know where anything is. It can be tidy but hard to use or maintain.
Something I explained to Jessica today: It's possible to have code that works but that no one really understands. In fact, not just possible, but the default.
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Also please explain it to the 11 year old.
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And some people take pride in that.
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Makes me think of this Fred Brooks quote: "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious."
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Would you mind expanding on this for the business layman?
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Broadened to society as a whole, this is a Burkean conservative insight.
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Whoa. Why are you calling out
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You mean including the author of said code? I don't know how that would be possible, although I have sometimes fixed bugs, without really knowing what was wrong in the first place.
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Same. The 1am miracle. Walk away from the screen outside for 15 minutes. Come back change some things and boom it works. No idea why. Happened several times during school (many years ago) haven't coded since.
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