I have worked at my current gig long enough where the answer is almost always me,
Who wrote this shit?
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#12To Woods’ Maxim — “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live” — I usually add the clause “and 90% of the time that maintainer will be future you!”
Write crap code, switch jobs and get 30-50% raise to maintain someone else's crap, rinse and repeat.
I feel like a well paid janitor.
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#13I shed a tear at the end.
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#14Feel like there has been increasingly more cuss / inappropriate words showing up on top page of HN. I recommend HN to my kids. Not that they are not exposed to these words online but I would rather not come this from their parent. Not sure how to feel.
The rules in our house are, the only bad words, are words used to hurt other people.
Having said that, cussing is a rite of passage in our house. We all cuss like sailors.
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#15NB: It’s “rite of passage”, not “right of passage”.
Ah, today I learned something. Thank you for pointing that out, I corrected it. Seems like the title fits the post ;).
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#16Sometimes I say it, then I "git blame" it, and it was me.
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#18My favourite is when you're a solopreneur working in your own repos and still asking yourself "who wrote this shit?!"
I once worked as a freelancer for a tiny company that at some point refused to pay me for one day of work. One of their reasons was that my code wasn't up to their standards. I could see in git that the code they complained about was actually written by their lead (and only) developer. They still didn't pay, though.
I loved those moments, the work was done, you moved on, and they came with all the ammunition they collected to wiggle out of payments.
The trick is to give them easily defuseable bad ammunition when they "sneak" around to collect. If you disassemble all their arguments and have emails were they were informed, you can trash them thoroughly.
Unpayed though. Cause even good arguments cant help broke little shops.
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#19My favourite is when you're a solopreneur working in your own repos and still asking yourself "who wrote this shit?!"
I heard a saying once: "all developers should be embarrassed about code they wrote more than a year ago" as a (cheeky) measure of ongoing growth and development. :-)
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#20I find it a refreshing experience to look at your own code from 10 years ago, or even 5 and think "Who wrote this shit?". If I ever look at some of my old code and feel good about it, that means I have failed to improve.