>>>Theoretically dumb management can tell good developers to do dumb things, but the good developers I've worked with have refused to do dumb things and went somewhere where they could do smart things.
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>>How do you tell if a programmer is lousy?
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>not as poignant as Dragan, but you count the # of facepalms your lead developer registers during code review.
I remember someone here many years ago (maybe David Frankenbach?) quantifying this as # of WTFs / page of code.
Still, (sometimes) one dev's WTF is another's eureka.
I fear that software development is like smut. I can't define what is bad code or a lousy programmer, but I know it when I see it.
Development needs to be as scientific as possible.
Regards. Al
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