Beyond Coding Elegant Code and How Things Work with Andrew Snare
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OUTLINE
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:25 - Disagreeing how things work
00:03:18 - Understanding 99%
00:05:44 - Comfortably being the expert
00:06:47 - Getting used to making mistakes
00:08:26 - The ingredients to an awesome work environment
00:10:00 - Delivering high quality software
00:12:12 - Building for scale
00:13:25 - Removing components
00:15:55 - The biggest problems in modern engineering
00:18:15 - In tech, not all opinions are equal
00:20:44 - The Mythical Man-Month
00:21:52 - Understanding why
00:23:10 - Losing trust and respect
00:24:20 - Being at fault for incorrect decisions
00:26:38 - Compounding knowledge
00:28:52 - Learning different programming languages
00:29:59 - Patrick's struggle with foundational knowledge
00:32:18 - Top down vs bottom up knowledge
00:34:40 - Going a layer deeper
00:36:38 - Understanding new concepts
00:39:07 - Comparing engineering disciplines
00:41:03 - Uncharted territory
00:42:24 - Integration complexities
00:45:14 - The properties of elegance
00:48:22 - Are smart solutions elegant?
00:49:28 - Messy problems and messy solutions
00:50:58 - Making solutions too simple
00:53:50 - 3 audiences when writing code
00:56:11 - Last thoughts