Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Mar. 6, 2017
Let me say right off the bat that the features we will discuss here are pure poison brought to object-oriented programming by those who desperately needed a lobotomy, just like David West suggested in his Object Thinking book. These features have different names, but the most common ones are traits…
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Feb. 27, 2017
During nearly every presentation in which I explain my view of object-oriented programming, there is someone who shares a comment like this: "If we follow your advice, we will have so many small classes." And my answer is always the same: "Of course we will, and that's great!" I honestly believe th…
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Feb. 20, 2017
This is a real story, and it's not only about Google. I'm getting emails from recruiters at Amazon, Facebook, and smaller Silicon Valley startups. They find me somehow, most likely through this blog, my books, or my GitHub account. They always start with "We're so impressed by your profile" and fin…
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Feb. 13, 2017
I've said before that your StackOverflow reputation is very important to us when we make a decision on how much we should pay a software developer. However, there were many complaints about this metric. Take, for example, the ones here and here. In a nutshell, so many of you disagreed and said that…
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Feb. 6, 2017
Do you have private static methods that help you break your algorithms down into smaller parts? I do. Every time I write a new method, I realize that it can be a new class instead. Of course, I don't make classes out of all of them, but that has to be the goal. Private static methods are not reusab…
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Jan. 30, 2017
Sometimes Very often I need a class that implements an interface by making an instance of another class. Sound weird? Let me show you an example. There are many classes of that kind in the Takes Framework, and they all are named like *Wrap. It's a convenient design concept that, unfortunately, look…