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If I wanted to embrace garbage every day I would have skipped college and went straight to being a bum. Life is too short to "embrace the garbage" every day.

• ddw 10y ago
  This. Developer happiness matters.
  • lost953 10y ago
    Not nearly so much as customer happiness does.
    • collyw 10y ago
      Decent developers don't want to work on shit code bases all day long. The application will suffer in the long run.
      • OOPMan 10y ago
        Agreed. I'm not going to make any customers happy working on a product if I hate the codebase and the language I'm working in so much I just DGAF.
      • oblio 10y ago
        This looks like a lie. For the right amount of money, people will work for long periods of time on crap code bases.
        • vancouverwill 10y ago
          Not sure about that. Most companies biggest problem is finding talent employees and most experienced engineers will not want to work on a Php codebase especially one full of technical debt due to the variety of other options in languages which compile and miss out on a huge percentage of php problems before you even run basic tests.
    • y4mi 10y ago
      i think thats wrong. its mostly "not nearly as much as money does". and money is directly correlated to customer happiness
• pc86 10y ago
  To be fair, you could have also skipped college and become a PHP developer.
  • arpa 10y ago
    To be honest, the way you put it (/i read it/) sounds like becoming a bum is a better alternative.