Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012)
by tzahola on Sunday January 21, 2018 @10:32AM
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>I fixed more and more problems by removing my bosses code
Very interesting phenomenon!
Paraphrasing the Peter principle: incompetent people will be promoted until they can inflict the least harm.
In some sense, this is a natural self-defense mechanism of an organization, like how the body encapsules benign tumors in connective tissue.
Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012)
by eitland on Sunday January 21, 2018 @01:05PM
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Eh, let me point out that for someone who claimed he didn't like to code he was very good.
I've seen consultants that would create crazier code.
He just wasn't used to Maven conventions.
Oh, and we both laughed :-)
My rule of thumb is: if it doesn't "just work" with Maven and Netbeans I (or maybe sometimes someone else) is doing something wrong. (Although that "wrong" could be using a project that isn't ready for production use.)
At one place we had this saying: I fixed more and more problems by removing my bosses code (i.e. falling back to the relatively sane defaults.)