"The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there." - Gordon Bell
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Same with unnecessary employees.
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Yeah it’s a cancer. Spreads unless excised. Eventually recurs anyway. Shortens product lifetime. And so on.
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it's why deleting code is often more enjoyable than writing it. Like you're seeing through that ruse.
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One of the fundamental rules, I think: leave no unnecessary code. It only confuses those who come after.
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Unnecessary code is your Ex following you on Facebook.
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The less to read the better.
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damage caused by bad code scales logarithmically on size of team. At a certain point a team needs to start spending time gardening.
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IME, bugs/LOC is relatively constant. Therefore, single biggest contributor to bugs is LOC. Code itself is evil
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haaaaaa haaaaa
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first thought to mind is more complex code equals more complex security flaws?
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Compliexity is the enemy of Security.
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What's the harmful effect of the signal?
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Really, just trying to understand..
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Useless code not removed forces you to think why it is still there, making you waste time you need for the useful one
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indeed, it's only harmless when the reader already understands the dead code and all the other code. So, practically never.
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I think this is something that can only be learned at scale
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you should strive for the smallest possible commit
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Please remove all unnecessary code.
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