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I exaggerated the number a little. I think I was the third or fourth. At that company I met a contractor who thought architecture meant just turning everythin
by Quarrelsome 9y ago
I exaggerated the number a little. I think I was the third or fourth.
At that company I met a contractor who thought architecture meant just turning everything into a Singleton. I was asked to write some tests for his code (fml).
> Its in the Gang of Four!
Was his defence.
- Ntrails 9y agoOne chap at my last place had a crusade against the global variables littered throughout the code base. By gods did he fight the good fight. After what must've been a good 2 years of active bitching and pruning, a new product was developed by a sub team without him - to be considered the pinnacle of tech that the team could produce. Look at this - just a single global variable!!! Amazing! The progress! Just that one global Dictionary<string,object> which contained everything the various classes would ever want, all easily grabbed with nothing more than a string and a quick cast into whatever the actual type was. Magic