Who wrote this shit?
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Who wrote this shit?
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#2To 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!”
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#3Haha I’ve been working at the same place for 9 years. Last year I came across some code and thought “who the fuck wrote this shit”. Looked at the history. I wrote it 7 years earlier. Always fun to dunk on old code but still appreciate it pays the bills.
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#4My favourite is when you're a solopreneur working in your own repos and still asking yourself "who wrote this shit?!"
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#5Haha I’ve been working at the same place for 9 years. Last year I came across some code and thought “who the fuck wrote this shit”. Looked at the history. I wrote it 7 years earlier. Always fun to dunk on old code but still appreciate it pays the bills.
If you hang around long enough you'll end up with code you once wrote that was maybe a quick fix, maybe you thought it was brilliant, but now appears to you as a steaming pile of crap.
Sometimes it may however still be the best solution but your future self was unable to figure out why because your former self was too lazy to properly document the code.
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#6Haha I’ve been working at the same place for 9 years. Last year I came across some code and thought “who the fuck wrote this shit”. Looked at the history. I wrote it 7 years earlier. Always fun to dunk on old code but still appreciate it pays the bills.
The Margaritaville stages of debugging:
1. It's nobody's fault
2. It could be my fault
3. It's my own damn fault
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#7My 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.
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#8Feel 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.
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#9NB: It’s “rite of passage”, not “right of passage”.
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#10Feel 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.
I recommend you no longer recommend content aggregation websites to people who you want to see only certain content.