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My boss told me my code was too clever. She was right.
I spent 2 years writing these super fancy nested loops and one-liners. My boss at a dev shop in Austin finally sat me down and said "readability matters more than showing off." Now I write simple functions with clear variable names. Has anyone else had to unlearn showing off to become a better coder?
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wren6381mo ago
Totally been there. I used to write these insane list comprehensions that took me 10 minutes to parse later, and my lead finally told me "just write the damn loop.
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morgan.rose1mo ago
Wait, your lead actually had to tell you that like it wasn't obvious? I've sat there staring at a one-liner list comp for twenty minutes trying to remember if it was square brackets or curly braces for the thing I needed. Next time just add a few line breaks and some variable names that aren't just x, y, z - future you will actually appreciate it.
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