New Article: The Hangover test

Author: Samuelfaure

docs/.vuepress/config.js

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       {
         text: "Lessons",
         children: [
+          "/lessons/TheHangoverTest.md",
           "/lessons/ProductivityAndWellBeing.md",
           "/lessons/AtomicGitCommits.md",
           "/lessons/HowToLearnGit.md",

docs/lessons.md

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 # Lessons
 
+- [🍻 Does your Pull Request pass the Hangover test?](/lessons/TheHangoverTest.md)
 - [📈 Productivity and Well-being, A summary of what works.](/lessons/ProductivityAndWellBeing.md)
 - [⭐Dramatically increase your productivity with Atomic Git Commits](/lessons/AtomicGitCommits.md)
 - [🧑‍💼 How to Learn Git Slowly](/lessons/HowToLearnGit.md)

docs/lessons/TheHangoverTest.md

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+---
+title: 🍻 Does your Pull Request pass the Hangover test?
+description: A short reminder about what Programming is about - reducing complexity.
+footer: CC-BY-4.0 Licensed | Copyright © 2018-present by Samuel Faure <3
+---
+
+# 🍻 Does your Pull Request pass the Hangover test?
+
+This is a short reminder about what Programming is.
+
+Programming has and will always be about reducing complexity first and foremost.
+
+If you ask a coworker to review your pull request, always ask yourself: does it pass the Hangover test?
+
+Can your coworker turn on his computer after having drank too much the previous evening and still be able to understand your code with minimal effort?
+
+It's always easy to write complex code on a good day. Complexity is easy to write; simplicity is not. Just because you had an easy time writing it on that day doesn't mean it's simple enough for someone else to understand it on a bad day.
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+Because you don't write code for writing it, you write it for it to be read - it will be written once but read 50 times or more.
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+If you're not writing for Hangover Coworker, you're making your life -and the life of every colleague, present and future- harder.
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+Remember that Complex code is not a sign of intelligence, it's a sign of sloppiness.
+
+So can someone kill their brain cells with too much alcohol and the next morning still make sense of your code with relative ease?
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+If not, back to the drawing board 🔁 Make it better until it passes the Hangover test.
+