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If it only was so simple. Often enough this mess has been carefully prepared over twenty years and there simply is no way back or forth without breaking something. That, plus plenty of obfuscation or downright misleading information let my think that this is not an accident. It's deliberate
All the years before, some other poor idiot had been sitting between a screaming customer and the same hand waving manager without any chance of getting out of this in a decent way. Letting exceptions or other errors slip under the rug and then pretending that everything is just fine makes the customer happy and is done quick enough to make the manager happy. No doubt the whole thing will come back next week, but who cares as long as the manager and the customer never really quite get what's really going on. Not nice, but pure self defense.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I believe the competent are frequently tasked with fixing the errors of others. Who else would you ask? I'm currently in the race for a position which will require me to decouple a monolithic back-end into micro-services. Do I detest the people that came before me? Not at all. I revel in the chance to take the sketch a fellow developer has created and turn it into my own art. This speaks not to the impotence of the former developer but to my own ambition; not to their detraction but to my addition. Even the blindest of managers can see darkness (exceptions not withstanding).
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If those projects I have seen had been the work of a single person, then the code would have been a monument to mental illness. Over time so many different people came and went away that it simply shows how they had been left alone with the problem, found no solution and gave up after struggling some time. I don't detest them, but by now there would be only one way left: Throw the whole thing away and start all over again. Now guess who does not want to hear anything about that kind of ideas...
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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From the scribings of Mahatma Kote, no doubt.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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den2k88 wrote: nit-pick on formalities
If you think that's all that needs to be fixed with "bad code", you've never seen bad code.
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I did - I understand what you mean. But bad code != bad architecture, and that is not something you can "clean-up" because it will require rethinking of the entire substructure that needs to be fixed, and often this will throw in the need to rethink the surrounding substructures.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Well, ok, lets call "bad architecture" bad code, at a larger scale. 
I still have some nightmares from a product I've worked on, was subsequently taken over by a newer guy for a few years, then he quit and it was handed back to me. Since that day I've disavowed ownership. 
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Let me, then, offer you an alternative quote:
"If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when will you find the time to do it again?"
Now, convolute that with your original quote, the hacks just make it work - they then hope to use someone elses time for the do-it-again part.
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Aye, a good programmer IMHO is precisely one who takes the time and the effort to do it right the first time.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Quote: Excuse me? Are you trying to say that good developers are the ones who don't write any code on their own and simply nit-pick on formalities of other people's code?
Formalities has such a nice ring to it. Will call the steaming piles that I occasionally waddle trough a formality from now on.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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den2k88 wrote: "Bad developers code, good developers clean up".
And of course the missing piece in this analysis is the code that I clean up ... that I wrote myself.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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If we're going with trite statements;
"Bad developers code such that you have to clean up, good developers code so you don't have to."
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( please see soapbox to discuss politics behind this)
I have visions of trump walking around the deck of the ship these missiles were fired from, pointing at the empty, smoking, missile-launchers, saying "you're fired".
modified 6-Apr-17 22:08pm.
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You made Herself laugh!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That sounds like Trump, but I would not have thought that the Governator[^] would let him use his jokes. And no bonus points for literally firing the terrorists at other terrorists.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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So says The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia.
Now, just think a bit about that subject line.
Folk remedy...
...jetlag...
Riiiight.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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In my opinion, Mary Ann is more effective than Ginger. ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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Like more alcohol is a cure for a hangover.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Mary Jane is more effective than Mary Anne!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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So is sleep.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: So is sleep.
sleep is a folk remedy???
the years have I wasted on that one...
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Touché! 
Jeremy Falcon
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So is not flying in the first place.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Riiiight
Shows how scientific YOU are !
Turn on the logical reasoning section of your brain.
Think back a hundred and fifty years or more.
People were doing garlic and ginger.
Now think of our modern day lifestyle and habits, which have removed nearly all vestiges of garlic and ginger.
Okay scientist, here's your question: Was jet lag more prevalent then, or now ?
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