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0 pointslisivka9y ago0 comments

Your code will not pass my peer review. ;-)

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z929y ago· 2 in thread

If it works, then it works. That's the point.

If I don't use it because it doesn't pass my peer review process, whatever that might be, then my competitor will use it and come up with a faster/cheaper solution than my one.

lisivkaOP9y ago

Peer review is not for filtering software. Peer review is process which used by (professional) developers to help each other to catch bugs and share experience and best practices. Basically, I said him that I found bugs and/or bad practices in his code.

ambrop79y ago

Peer review is optimized for the average developers and developers in a specific team. And, when an extremely good programmer writes the code, peer review tends to:

- Mostly raise issues about nonfunctional aspects of the code. Often these are about the author knowingly violating coding guidelines, which they found stupid (at least in specific cases). Guidelines may conflict with the techniques that the author uses to achieve bugless code.

- Improve the skill of the reviewer much more than the author, as the reviewer observes high quality code and novel techniques.

> I found bugs

Please do let me know about bugs!

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