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I voted up. Words and behavior matter.
If your identity is so hung up on being a man and believing that men are “better” than women, your identity is a frail illusion.
Try to imagine being so “weak” that you can’t accept that there are women who are successful and some do better than you.
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It's due to fear. Fear of breaking something that may depend on that bad code. Test automation rarely covers every possible case, and nobody wants to be on the hook when some code changes cause other stuff to break.
And for all of the benefits of process, I have never met a level of documentation, verification, or testing that matches the advantages of having the entire code base originating from one mind. Generally this is not tractable because it cannot scale. But there are certain applications where it scales fine.
It is hubris to think that every problem admits the same solution, namely, throw as many devs as we can at it and hope for the best. But business isn't really known for being reflective.
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> Are there any other products with such a small team and a huge userbase? My game Nebulous was 1.5 devs (one full time one part time) and multiple millions of MAU. 9.5 years later it's still going well. > when the business requires more coding and technical debt comes how do they manage it Delete bad code. Replace with good code. Sounds simple enough but in my experience at mega and mid corps, step 1 is almost never…
Fleet commander or I'm guessing .IO?
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You're the only person who used "woke" in this thread, at the time of my comment.
Pretty nice, 1 dev 3 team members in total and 1 million users? Are there any other products with such a small team and a huge userbase? Does this scale and when the business requires more coding and technical debt comes how do they manage it?
I owned a website with over a million users. Used cloudflare and a $20 cloud instance to run it. Also relied on certain other CDNs. Don’t own it anymore, but considering starting a new project.
Looks like a pretty cool app! "Amazon-free Goodreads" is a pretty good pitch. I'm curious how freemium model works out for them though, I could imagine a lot of people thinking the free version is good enough for them.
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It's due to fear. Fear of breaking something that may depend on that bad code. Test automation rarely covers every possible case, and nobody wants to be on the hook when some code changes cause other stuff to break.
That, and most orgs simply do not reward or even pretend to care about these kinds of improvements. If you delete bad (but working) code, and replace it with good (and, let's assume best-case scenario - also working) code, what has actually changed for the business? Nothing. Except that in 3 years the junior dev that gets a ticket about doing something in this area will come in and not notice the code isn't a dumpste…
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it's always fear for me. I'd rather leave it commented out for a decade or so to be safe.
I never understood commenting out code when you have version control. I get why people do it, I’ve done it myself and then two days later been confused which of the 3 commented out function was actually the most recent. It’s infinitely more clear from the version control since the history is there for you to zoom through.