[LoSboccacc]

yeah many are really important, like the part about 'calling your shot' - I constantly see so many people testing solutions to problem at random, either copy pasted from internet or built using random auto-completion; they spend days and days circling around without ever understanding the changes they're making nor the goal their building towards.

It's doubly painful when days after they come up with the random set of lines that produces the intended result and dozen unintended side effects and proudly declare 'see! I did it'

the fact is this stuff has been in literature from the seventies. I found very little in this article that couldn't be found in 'code complete' or 'refactorings'. I just wish at some point developers will stop learning everything from scratch.