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Yegor Bugayenko
How to Cut Corners
and Stay Cool
Iași, Romania
23 April 2018

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Maintainability
Manageability

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Socio
Skills
Tech

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https://twitter.com/yegor256/status/977799130100781056

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Create a ticket and
wait. Demand the code
to look clean before
you even touch it.
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“If you don't know how
the code works, it's a
fault of the code, not
you.”

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Demand better
documentation and
wait.
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“The project doesn’t
need you to be smart.
It needs maintainable
code.”

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Reproduce the bug and
call it a day.3

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“Catching a bug with
an automated test is a
bigger achievement
than fixing the bug.”

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Prove a bug’s absence.
Create additional
automated tests.
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“A new passing test is a
good response to a bug
that you can't catch
with a unit test.”

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Disable the feature.
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“Keep the code clean and
close tickets in a reasonable
amount of time; let them
worry about customers.”

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Say no.
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“Being a professional
developer doesn't mean
being able to fix any
problem.”

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https://twitter.com/yegor256/status/983210952832241664

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Don’t Be a Hero.

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WDYT?

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