Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase

Re:Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase by zelphirkalt on Thursday August 03, 2023 @07:51AM (#36984508)

Life is too short for working with crap code. Unfortunately there is more crap code out there, than there are opportunities of working on beautiful code. At least in most jobs there will at minimum be compromise and part of the job will be dealing with ugly code.

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Re:Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase by yaky on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:11AM (#36984722)

Most developers see and work with crap code because good code runs well and rarely needs to be touched. At least that’s what I tell myself.

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Re:Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase by zelphirkalt on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:17AM (#36984792)

Makes me wonder how many of us work on things, that are actually relevant and not just reinventing things or adding to future dystopia.

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Re:Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase by SanderNL on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:43AM (#36985098)

Now that I'm older this sort of comment actually makes me laugh. Thanks for that. Good code.. oh, sweet sweet summer child.

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Re:Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase by thisismyhna on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:05AM (#36985355)

Nothing like working on crap code that past you wrote.

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