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Thank you so much!

I wrote it in snatches of time nearly always late at night, so the snark just...happened. I was worried how it would be taken, so thank you for the encouragement, including about the level of detail.



Level of detail is something I think a lot about lately. Interviews go off the rails with candidates who answer in too much detail or not enough. Meetings go off the rails with non-actionable proclamations or tedious line-by-line details.

Machine generated / doxygen / javadoc documentation is the worst. I'd rather read the code, but code can also be difficult to read even if it's functional, especially when it's optimal. So having a guide to the code written by someone who knows how it is all laid out is pretty much the best case scenario.


I love it, I think I’m going to take some of these ideas for a literate programming thing I’m working on. Also props for proving that jagoff wrong.




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