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Very true. Perhaps even more true for large companies. Also true: there are many more reasons to avoid large companies, if you value your sanity.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I review books. From Manning. I never had to ask them to change code. Ever.
If you want to make a proposition for change, you ask yourself what it is worth. Does your idea add value?
If not, then SHUT THE F*** UP.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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In one place, we wrote pseudo-code before coding. We reviewed the pseudo code. That's it. (i.e. the programmer / analyst gets it).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Years ago, I had the same.
A colleague wrote an export routine to export a number of tables to an XML file.
The tables where already loaded in memory.
He came up with an over the top export routine of about 20.000 lines of code.
He had been working on it for 3 weeks.
I had to do the code review.
I looked at it and rejected ALL of it. (And I wasn't revengeful)
I told him we could do it with ONE little statement. (ds.GetXml() - where ds is the already loaded DataSet)
He never spoke to me again until I left the company. 
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You feel this way partly because a lot of people do code review wrong.
Y'all need to check out Dr Michaela Greiler:
1. Follow https://twitter.com/mgreiler if you use the bird site
2. Read her code review checklist
3. Perhaps book a code review workshop if your team is really getting bumpy around code review time (I haven't worked through any of her workshops, but have a lot of faith they will be good based on her newsletter)
Where I work, code review is an integral part of the dev cycle. No code gets back into the main line without review. When I joined the place I work at now, code review was new to me. Often it felt like brutal, unnecessary nitpicking. What's changed since then is two-fold:
1. all of us are striving to be better reviewers, because (a) that's good for the product, (b) that's good for the reviewee (fostering good relationships and the ability to learn), (c) that's good for the reviewer (not wasting time on pointless bullπ©)
2. I think we've all learned to detach the self from the code. You are, in the words of Tyler Durdin, not your fscking car keys. You are not your fscking code. You are fallable, like everyone else, and can, when open to it, learn, both to be a better coder, and to be humble, which makes you a better person.
Just because your code has an issue, it doesn't make you less of a person, or even less of a coder. It just grants you an opportunity to learn, when someone helps you discover that issue. Of course, that "someone" has to learn how to review without personal attack - see recommendations above.
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If you say that getting the money
is the most important thing
You will spend your life
completely wasting your time
You will be doing things
you don't like doing
In order to go on living
That is, to go on doing things
you don't like doing
Which is stupid.
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Too many people treat code reviews as a way to pick apart someone's efforts. Personally I look at them as a way to ask questions, offer suggestions and even as a learning opportunity for myself and the rest of the team. If someone has found a better way of performing a task, it gives us all a chance to absorb that lesson and use for ourselves.
It should be a two-way street, with the reviewers having that opportunity to see and understand the nature of the new/added code.
Egos need to be left at the door when doing these reviews, and the participants need to keep an open mind...
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Occasionally, a review of proposed algorithms for solutions (not VS solutions) would have pseudo code presented to the group. It helped establish the flow chart of logic to the solution. No review of code was required. As professionals it was assumed we knew what we were doing. There were exceptions such as debugging problems, etc. but rare as a group. Our shop was not that large so meetings were more often 1 on 1. Picking apart code was something done by our professors in school, or by a selected colleague. You were responsible for picking apart your own code. If your code had to be plugged into a system, then a dummy system was used to test it. Here a group meeting might be called to review that test, before going live. It has been awhile and things have changed including coding. Richard Hamming, American Mathematician (Hamming code fame)
"Mathematicians stand on on each other's shoulders and computer scientists stand on each other's toes."
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Super Lloyd wrote: I often feel like code review are mostly filled with unneeded comment for the sake of commenting or to take some sort of "ownership" that doesn't do anything special beside burdening the reviewee with a special cosmetic change udpate.
All I can say in my experience of many years is that reviewers often do nothing but rubberstamp the review process.
So if you are seeing this from many people I would be curious exactly what they are commenting on so frequently in your code.
Super Lloyd wrote: was doing unnecessary work in Dispose() because "that's what is done everywhere", even though it's not needed and closing documents take godamn too long (due to all those unnecessary piece of code running in all those Dispose()
If you have a "document" which is taking too long to close and you have actually profiled the problem to be a problem with Dispose method then I would question your architecture and design. Or perhaps the definition of "document".
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Very good second guess though
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Badfinger
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If computer is a bicycle for the mind, is ChatGPT then a pedelec? 
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Or just playing cards on the rear wheel.
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Like in Γystein Sunde Sykkeleiker[^]?
I never learned to play this piece - I tried but gave up. Later, I learned that it is played with a different tuning, which makes it a lot easier. But by that time I had given up the guitar entirely.
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Link did not work. I have heard of weirdly tuned steel guitars.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Link didn't work? Can Youtube links have regional restrictions? It works fine here, but maybe that is because the video (or in this case: LP cover) is Norwegian, and I access it from Norway. Sorry, the clip isn't mine, so I cannot change any such restriction. 
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