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grin
@grin
what's some programming advice that's considered common sense or that you hear often, but is actually bad advice?
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Situational, but “it doesn’t need to look pretty, it just has to work” is pretty bad advice for stuff that needs feedback from nontechnical people. Bad/ugly UX and “it’s just a mock-up” things like dummy data is often very confusing and will often derail user interviews in strange ways
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
Oh man, I was just about to come in and say something to that effect. The amount of damage the "MVP" (Minimum Viable Product) concept has wrought through engineers having a free pass to say "fuck it, doesn't have to look good" thereby causing all sorts of false-negatives on the product concept to wrack up from testing
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
+1 takes underscore value too!
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