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Re:What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014) by marktangotango on Sunday November 22, 2015 @10:45AM (#10610375)
How do you handle the clueless? How do you handle the director of development who wrote the system the company is based on yet refuses to learn anything about relational dbs or why storing megabytes of data in the session makes it impossible to scale?
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Re:What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014) by mdpopescu on Monday November 23, 2015 @03:44AM (#10613473)
I leave. This is related to the "not being afraid of not finding a new job" :)

I have done it twice in the last five years - in both cases because I wasn't allowed to improve the quality of the code. In the first case, it was because "the client isn't paying for that, they're paying for features". In the second case, because "that code was written by the NY office and they're going to be upset if we change it".

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