Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "The Cult of Done: How to Finish the Thing" video.

  1. You sound like pyramid scheme salesmen.
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  2. Thanks, I'm just gonna delete my company's entire codebase.
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  3. I think the "beholder" cares about the coffee machine actually working, not how "done" you feel after failing to fix it.
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  4. Editing is most of programming and the reason programming languages and design patterns are the way they are.
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  5. And even if it can't kill people, you can royally screw over the users or the next person that has to maintain your code.
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  6. Watching the video and reading the comments I now understand where all of the garbage code comes from. People being obsessed with being "done" and just copy&pasting thousands of lines of uncommented code.
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  7.  @NoBoilerplate In that case, that's completely meaningless. You're always "done" with something simply by virtue of time passing.
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  8. ​ @ThaJay  That way you can waste months on shit that you could have figured out in 5min. Watching a ton of tutorials is entirely reasonable when you're starting out with sth.
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  9.  @NoBoilerplate  You might not be done with the feature any time soon though. And then it's important that you have the patience and honesty of admitting that and not shipping an unsafe product.
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  10.  @NoBoilerplate My interpretation is that for software simply the opposite is true. There is no reason to be obsessed with being "done" except ones own impatience and lack of discipline. Most important software is never done, but continuously improved.
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  11. It's impossible to test your programming knowledge in an interview. Lots of people "fake it" in programming, which is where horrible, impossible to understand or maintain code comes from.
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  12. "Are you done fixing the coffee machine, Mr. No Boilerplate?" "Yes, it's destroyed."
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  13. Adding things to existing stuff is the entirety of civilization. If people followed your advice they wouldn't be any more technologically advanced than porcupines.
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  14. I rather have too much food than too little...
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  15.  @DanielKacsmarik  Amen. The urgent need to be "done" is a horrible trait for a programmer.
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  16. When you're lying on the operating table, you hope that the surgeon that's currently sorting out your organs has the attitude of "perfection is boring"? When you're hanging in a harness 200m off the ground, you're hoping that the manufacturers thought to themselves every day that "perfection is boring"?
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  17.  @NoBoilerplate  You're channel is about programming, not making pottery. A software project is rarely ever "done" and if you're obsessed with being "done" at all costs, it's others who are holding the shit-bag that you left behind for them.
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  18. If you're obsessed with being "done" with stuff, you should not become a programmer. Software is constantly being improved, expanded and re-used. You're rarely ever "done" with anything.
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  19. That's not even remotely true. Painters have always been able to edit mistakes, not to speak of digital art. Also you can't just "start again" on any reasonably sized project.
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  20. Precisely. I don't want to be on the bridge designed by a member of the Cult of Done, nor in a plane that runs code written by one.
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