I may have been hanging around on Hacker News too much, but I can't decide whether your comments are sincere or an attempt at parody (I hope it's the latter, or I pity Mr Krumins' employees).
They are doing great. They love deploying! Deploy or die is the mantra we have.
hahaha amazingly I actually heard this in real life a couple of days ago... something along: "you write more comments than code! that's not productive!"
And it's 100% true. The job is to get it out to production not to write essays in comments. Always be deploying.
I always thought my job was thinking, not writing? It should be about finding a good solution to the problem, not cranking out code like a madman.
No, you have to crank the code out to production as fast as possible. Ship it all the time, every day, tens of times a day. It's a war zone, not academia where you can think all day.
Nah, sorry, I don't buy that. I'm not in a "war zone", I'm building a product for humans, and would like to earn a little so I can enjoy life.
Going to war doesn't spark joy for me, but if that's your kink, I'm not stopping you.
Running a business is always a war. Either you deploy and win the war, or you are still thinking about the code you will be deploying some day and lose the war to someone who deployed.
If someone is just one deployment behind you, it may be time to work smarter, not harder.
Just one deployment? To win the war you need to be hundred deployments ahead.
You can still ship early and often while adding a comment here and there so tomorrow you'll understand what you wrote and won't have to figure it out all over again
Agree here but:
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May I use your last sentence? It is great.
Absolutely!
Comments explain why the code exists. When you write a comment, you see sometimes that the code is not necessary.
Not necessary and removed code is the best code.
The best code is the one in production. All other code is useless.
The best code is the code that solves the user's problems
The best code is in production independent of anything else.