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		globular-toast 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative sh... Irrelevant. The "bad" code does it too. It's talking about something specific and not "let's fix all the problems with this code".

procaryote 10 days ago [–]

If you write one method poorly so you select too much and filter in a for loop, you just have a bad method you can fix.

If you pick and recommend a pattern where filtering should happen separately from retrieving, all your code will be bad

Give a man a fish / teach a man to fish, but bad.

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