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Owen W.
Owen W.
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Owen W.

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Software Engineer with a film degree, Free Software Hacker, Techno Feminist. Maybe I need to update my profile? It's been a couple years.

Cambridge, MA
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    1. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Feb 6
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      Sarah Mei Retweeted Richard Feldman

      100% agree. As I’ve said before - many people think DRY (“don’t repeat yourself”) means syntax or structure, when it really means concepts.https://twitter.com/rtfeldman/status/1092885754265489408 …

      Sarah Mei added,

      Richard Feldman @rtfeldman
      What's the thing in programming where we are most blind to its costs? I think it has to be code reuse. I bet if you had someone go through your issue tracker and label every bug that could ultimately be traced back to the pursuit of code reuse, the results would be horrifying.
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    2. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Feb 6
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      If you have to add a conditional in your reused code, you shouldn’t be reusing itpic.twitter.com/dTNWErJf6K

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    3. Owen W.‏ @ywwg Feb 6
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      Replying to @sarahmei

      depends on the conditional. Branching on changes in logic -- bad, don't do that. Branching for changes in data... make that a parameter or some other refactor

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    4. Owen W.‏ @ywwg Feb 6
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      (sometimes it's not clear that you're branching on data! Maybe the data is a result of a bunch of branched logic.)

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    5. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei Feb 6
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      Replying to @ywwg

      Hmm. I find the line between code & data is fuzzy in many codebases - i.e., a hash gets passed in with a bunch of optional params that alter behavior. Code or data? Sorta both??? 🤔

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      Owen W.‏ @ywwg Feb 6
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      Replying to @sarahmei

      exactly. But that's why we get paid the big bucks, to figure out refactors that clarify these issues :)

      8:02 AM - 6 Feb 2019
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        1. Owen W.‏ @ywwg Feb 6
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          I just did a refactor that was able to pull conditionals out of the implementation this way, that's why it came to mind

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