Tag: rookie mistakes
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Countering the Damage of Well-intentioned Misinformation
Following are some thoughts I recently had about cargo cult and Brandolini’s Law in software development. Brandolini’s Law says that the energy required to fight misinformation (or “bullshit”) is way higher than the energy required for spreading the misinformation in the first place. Cargo cult is the phenomenon where people…
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Code Review: Common Beginner Mistakes
After a long time, I once again did a few code reviews on Code Review Stack Exchange. One of them (a beginner’s implementation of a rock-paper-scissors game) stuck out, since it contained many of the typical rookie mistakes I see in code from newcomers (although, some of them even in…
Raimund Krämer 