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Who wrote this shit?
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#43I'm in a constant state of this in the codebase I inherited. The previous solo front-end developer was the manager of R&D so he couldn't be fired easily, he was the only person willing and sort of able to do front-end (PHP + JS/Dojo), he was super productive (most code was written in 2012/2013), but not a very competent or self-critical developer. Think a back-end that concatenates XML into a big global string over t…
Is this GIS code?
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#44In my first corporate job out of college (a NOC at an ISP) I was asked to update the documentation for troubleshooting quality of service issues. I checked our wiki for what was already there and it horrendous. I started to mentally thrash the person and was going to go confront them about it. When I checked the edit history I was greeted by a single edit and my username a week after I started the job.
I learned a great deal of humility and compassion in that moment.
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#45I 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.
I find that half the time I'll wonder who wrote it, realize I wrote it, start to rework it, and then realize why I wrote it that way in the first time, add a comment and move on.
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#46Old code is easy to dunk on, because it's far easier to write new code than modify old code.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Small claims court. It’s not acceptable to not pay people accordingly.
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#48Feel 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.
> Feel like there has been increasingly more cuss / inappropriate words showing up on top page of HN.
I wouldn't consider the word "shit" to be inappropriate for a reader that I felt mature enough to expose to HN content and conversations.
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#50This is why writing software is as much an art as it is a science. It is never perfect