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At the most basic level though, I suspect it merely comes down to: Building something new is fun, trying to debug, build on or debug something that already exi
by CM30 9y ago
At the most basic level though, I suspect it merely comes down to:
Building something new is fun, trying to debug, build on or debug something that already exists is a lot less so.
Well that and the point in the article about how their ideas would be respected. The guy who builds a whole new system gets a lot more respect from the management team than the person who keeps it going or fixes bugs.
- jsgo 9y agoI inherited a non-OOP C# web application where instead of using Master pages, they leveraged iframes for achieving similar (with a lot of trade offs). It is a nightmare, needs to be rewritten but no time available to do it. So in order to fix something, takes forever. In order to add something new, takes forever. I couldn't care less about respect considering I'm the only developer on it and I feel my manager and I have a good, respectful relationship as is. I just hate having to do fubar math to quote how long it will take to add/update something and having to put out a number I'd be embarrassed to quote on any other project.