Recently I encountered a real danger in form of the primitive obsession code smell: https://luzkan.github.io/smells/primitive-obsession.
Using int as function’s return created a confusion about how many many return
values the function may return, and whether or not they could be interpreted as
boolean value …
There is a good rule of designing functions (and class methods, which are a variant of functions): a function should do one thing only, and do it well.
A corollary of it is another tactical design rule: a function should have as few arguments as possible. Three is the absolute …
As my friend Jacob Gabrielson once put it, advocating Object-Oriented Programming is like advocating Pants-Oriented Clothing. // Steve Yegge
I was taught the Objected Oriented Programming (hereinafter “OOP”) long ago. Looking back now, it turned out that it maybe caused more harm than it was useful to my software design skills …
I’ve encountered this sort of advice at several books on design and typography. Guess this animated GIF (click to see) sums it up quite right.
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Make your tables more eloquent[/caption]
Source: http://9gag.com/gag/aVOdX32