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[Kaitokid]

"you gotta think lazy" is the best description ever of programmers and is the most true 😂

[savirananda]

"You gotta think lazy"
Me: coding for hours to automate 5 minutes tasks.

[moinali]

Be DRY don't be WET ( We Enjoy Typing)

[andrewwood]

"Don't repeat yourself is aimed at encouraging programmers to not repeat themselves"

[Goose____]

Oh don't you worry, im lazy alright, too lazy to even start coding

[montenegrodrd]

Well, sometimes readability takes precedence over DRY. :)

[ujk]

There is no “DRY” npm package. Am I supposed to do this by thinking?

[dixie-pixie]

"You gotta think lazy"
Me: goes to stack overflow then copy-paste

[stephens]

Make sure not to use DRY programming in test cases, they are meant to be repetitive otherwise you will need to write tests for your tests.

[uuu]

My principle is "If it doesn't look good, it's not good"

Fitting with the example of the class init

[bassam_salim]

My professor always says: " start where others reached", that's why I used my classmates' graduation project's code to build my own, it was a php website and he had all the oop stuff ready so why spend time and effort writing it when they already did.

[jasonpepas]

The level beyond this is knowing when to break this rule, understanding the trade-off.

[SkyTheHusky]

"Don't repeat yourself is a software development principle aimed at reducing repeating yourself."
*ah yes, the floor is made out of floor here*

[tamaraoweibo]

“Gotta think lazy”… that’s what I’m doing when I repeat myself. It’s out of laziness… efficiency is hard.

[magne]

There’s nuance here:

«Prefer repetition over the wrong abstraction.»

«Avoid hasty abstractions»

See the talk by Sandy Metz.

[loupax]

It took me almost a decade to get this idea removed from my head

[RoyalYoutube_PRO]

Did he really repeat the functions in order to not repeat the function?

[kuratse]

"you gotta think lazy"
the one guy who overengineers simple code to save on doing the task multiple times: 👁️👄👁️

[rafagd]

I thought the wisdom on testing specifically was Do Repeat Yourself A Little Bit, so you don't break all tests by reusing code that wasn't supposed to change in the first place...

[abhinavap]

"You're a programmer, you gotta think lazy" man this line will stick with me for the rest of my life.