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I concur. I'm not a coder but I do review things every 2 months as part of the release cycle, and whenever I see mistakes, especially silly mistakes, I don't feel smart at all, it doesn't even cross my mind.

I feel, in order: disappointment - because how could they make this stupid mistake, then anger - why the f do I have to waste time to correct stupid mistakes, then a bit hateful - we need to fire this person and hire someone competent, then sometimes a bit scared - what else has this person got wrong and I missed, then a mix of all of the above.

What would make me feel good, as far as reviews go, would be to say "hey, this person did this way better than I would have".

Can you tell I hate doing reviews?

"The value of Tesla is not the actual production of cars. It's the IP of their self-driving technology, and the IP for their fully automated production line. " I highly doubt that but if you have any link/proof pls share. Their value is in providing a product people are head over heels about. And their valuation is much like any other company, based on guestimates of success.

Hello, GitHub 8 years ago

În a word, YES. Profitability <> quality.

I would argue that the case here is quite the opposite.

Github is loved for a variety of reasons, small & large decisions that are influenced by how profit-oriented the company is. And how willing they are to annoy their users to squeeze some more "profit" and/or data out of them.

As someone who does both (artistic, design type stuff, and also coding), I can confirm that it doesn't work like that for coding. I do draw stuff, arrows, blocks, layers, whatever can help me, but everything pales in comparison to sitting get still, with your eyes closed, and holding all that abstract construction in your head. Especially since I can be imagining days/weeks/months of work in one go. Artists have a huge advantage here.

That's why personally I'm a big believer in functional visual/feedback based tools for programming, like touch designer, grasshopper. Strictly for code there's Light table, but it's pretty far off of real visual programming tools. These help a lot in offloading some of that brittle house of cards construction you have to store in your head.