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[-] Australis13@fedia.io 47 points 1 month ago

As someone who has inherited code like that, I would like to strangle the first programmer in the comic.

[-] Clent@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 1 month ago

The use of "would have" instead of "will have" is making my eye twitch...

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

you should thank them for the long term employment

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Do you own the company or something?

[-] Australis13@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

Nope, just inherited a colleague's codebase when they left. It's years later and I still haven't sorted it all out.

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