Only a broken peasant, reduced to a mere Automaton, garants the quality and innovation- that this company is so proud to produce.

Seriously- i hate it when Hackers try to reduce theire co-workers to machines and enforce there personal taste as "programs".

If you are unable to deal with humans, to accept unimportant differences, why do you try to define the interfaces for humans on a project.

The point was if you’re trying to make joint code ownership work through those things you are already doing it wrong. Want everyone to run with their own style? Fine. You need to make the style sensitive parts of the process work. Whether that’s to adopt local style or something more complex.

If all you can do is not enforce some poor coding standards then you are defacto not a lead.

I think the same thing could be said of those who refuse to follow the coding standards.

This is mind base