Re:Laying myself off from Amazon
by beebmam on Thursday November 17, 2022 @01:17AM
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I've made a great career of being a code janitor and doing what others don't want, while having a good attitude. In the last few years, I just rewrite everything I possibly can in Rust and I've yet to regret it.
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> I just rewrite everything I possibly can in Rust and I've yet to regret it.
And hopefully no one else regrets it...
By then you're onto the next thing and it's their problem, right?
Thus is the circle of (engineering) life.
Just kidding. Please write maintainable code.
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon
by datavirtue on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:05AM
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"Please write maintainable code"
Not in the requirements, sorry.
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon
by Firmwarrior on Thursday November 17, 2022 @11:11AM
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He's using RUST. Haven't you seen all the blogicles that explain how it's impossible to write bad code in rust??
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon
by BurningFrog on Thursday November 17, 2022 @04:20PM
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> Please write maintainable code
Most people don't know how to do this, because it's actually hard, and I don't think it's being taught much in programmer education.
I certainly had to learn "on the job", and probably spent 10 years before I got good at it.
I learned the most by fixing bugs. After a while, I started seeing the patterns of why this bug had occurred, and started writing code do avoid the traps.
> a code janitor
I prefer the term troubleshooter specialising in legacy code, but "code janitor" definitely has felt more appropriate at times.
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon
by datavirtue on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:05AM
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Legacy rescue