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Re: Who wrote this shit?

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Post by HalcyonCowboy »

justinmchase wrote: post #100
rozenmd wrote: post #4

My favourite is when you're a solopreneur working in your own repos and still asking yourself "who wrote this shit?!"

On the other end, it's fun when you encounter a bug and go search for an answer and end up reading an answer on Stack Overflow that _you wrote_ 5 years ago and totally forgot about it.

Haha, this happened to me for the first time recently. Asked a question, didn’t get any answers, ended up updating my post with the answer I eventually found. Even had a couple of responses thanking me for the follow up. Five years later, ran into the same problem and forgot the answer, my answer was the top result on google.

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Post by sshine »

bikingbismuth wrote: post #44

In 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 gr…

I also had that moment; ask “Who wrote that shit?”, run ‘git blame’ and find yourself. This happened 1 year into my second job.

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Post by allochthon »

Oh, man. There's some bad code out there with my name on it. It took me years to move beyond the stage where my opinions meant more to me than those of my teammates. I am sad that I was such a boor for as long as I was.

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Post by trixie_ »

It's an exhausting cycle of writing code, hiring new people who say it's shit, who write their own code that next year the new batch of hires says it's shit again and needs to be rewritten. Of course all of these developers are too good to write a comment because their code is so easy to read that it's 'self documenting'

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Post by thecellardoor »

justinmchase wrote: post #100
rozenmd wrote: post #4

My favourite is when you're a solopreneur working in your own repos and still asking yourself "who wrote this shit?!"

On the other end, it's fun when you encounter a bug and go search for an answer and end up reading an answer on Stack Overflow that _you wrote_ 5 years ago and totally forgot about it.

Seems like life goals

Re: Who wrote this shit?

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Post by thecellardoor »

CapmCrackaWaka wrote: post #75
sbarre wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. :-)

I've seriously considered removing some of the older semi-popular projects from my github solely because I would be embarrassed to show them to a prospective employer, or even other developers. In the end I think it's actually kind of fun to look back through the code though, and think "surely I should have known about X back then... Why didn't I just do that instead."

As someone who looks at GitHub accounts as a resume, I can tell you that improvement over time is amazing to see. Assuming it’s clear what’s most interesting or recent.
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