Guide to Destroying Codebases the Demise of Clever Code

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Claims that strict patterns and fancy libraries create more work with concrete examples: a UI built for 200 MB devices fails with a web framework; a six‑month build gets cancelled; major rewrites happen every ~4–5 years after platform shifts like Swift or Jetpack changes; rxjava nine‑level nesting creates unreadable chains; Butter Knife deprecation and unmaintained libs (Mosby, Android Annotations) break builds; adding a DI abstraction turns one prefs write into a 13‑class dagger chain — these choices increase coupling, hidden state, and rewrite likelihood.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:50What is software
3. 1:24The development process
4. 3:01Termination
5. 5:20Why
6. 9:00How
7. 13:29Android Annotation
8. 14:34Incremental Support
9. 15:10Nucleus
10. 15:40Lift Scoop
11. 16:13Codelabs
12. 21:31RxJava
13. 23:17Unusual Technology
14. 26:06Uber Ribs
15. 27:20Things to Consider
16. 29:24Proprietary Code
17. 30:48How to Write Good Code
18. 32:08Minimize Dependency
19. 36:52Additional Complexity
20. 38:31Hidden Knowledge
21. 38:48Long Names
22. 39:00Semantic Names
23. 39:24Explicit Names
24. 39:41Mistranslation
25. 40:05English
26. 41:30Misuse Language Features
27. 42:04Why Software Architects Fail
28. 42:42Interfaces
29. 43:03Check Interfaces
30. 44:06Dependency Injection
31. 44:47Mocking
32. 45:34Inheritance Misuse
33. 46:04Conditionals
34. 46:26Not enough functions
35. 47:03Local functions
36. 47:24Fragments
37. 48:34Delegation Chain
38. 49:53Domain Presentation Setup
39. 50:38Dagger Configuration
40. 51:12Cyclomatic Complexity
41. 53:03Conclusion
42. 54:21Someone elses work
43. 54:32Resources
44. 55:00Pekka Structure
45. 56:55Tasker
46. 57:21MVC

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