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Re:Maintaining code quality when nobody cares by drdeadringer on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @01:34PM (#16369515)
Not just your coworkers today, "future you" as well.

I've known of or read the situation where someone opens some old code, thinks "Who wrote this hot garbage?", and then realizes it was them.

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Re:Maintaining code quality when nobody cares by Retric on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @02:01PM (#16369739)
If it worked for a year without bugs, then it's not garbage.

Did it work? Can you read and understand it? Then it has value.

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Re:Maintaining code quality when nobody cares by user5994461 on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @07:43PM (#16372384)
Unless it had no users or it was so much garbage that nobody reported any bug.
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Re:Maintaining code quality when nobody cares by Retric on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @06:01AM (#16374969)
That would mean it did not work.
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Re:Maintaining code quality when nobody cares by Retric on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @01:02PM (#16377773)
PS: The goal of Windows is not to create an OS the goal of Windows is to make Microsoft money.
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