CowboyBobo 11 points 3 years ago

I’ll take whatever gets my code merged

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computertoucher5000 9 points 3 years ago

I’ll take the paycheck.

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If I had a dollar for every time I proposed spending more time on something to make it flexible and able to grow but being told to "hard code it" to save time, I'd have several dollars. If I had a dollar for every time I had to patch that 6 months later, I'd have several more dollars.

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asyncrosaurus 3 points 3 years ago

You couldn't pay me enough dollars to cover the therapy caused by having to maintain the "flexible" code that added complexity and abstraction for a single use case that was never expanded to handle more.

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Idrunkenlysignedup 1 point 3 years ago

Depends on the use case. I used to make websites (~10 years ago) and someone wanted an image scroller and I knew for a fact someone else would want the same thing but with a different number of images showing and maybe instead of clicking next it shows the next image it shows the next 3 images etc. We had piles of very specific scrolling scripts that weren't flexible and were hard to bring to another site. I spent a bunch of my own time making a single script that could cover most cases and it ended up saving a ton of time and became the go-to script for everyone.

Eventually someone else came in and upgraded the script and made it better before making it a core script. Now with a couple HTML classes (and a little CSS) anything can be a scroller. Options can be changed with a few data attributes.

Sometimes it's worth it sometimes it's not. I've had things so specific that I coded it like I was robbing a liquor store (get in and out as fast as possible).

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computertoucher5000 1 point 3 years ago

Staring down the long barrel of this right now.

But don’t worry it’s just an MVP 🙄

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Coehl 1 point 3 years ago

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computertoucher5000 2 points 3 years ago

I got your next drink.

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