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To you and me, it’s about as obvious a red flag as can be. To a struggling small-business owner with a staff of dozens all depending on them for their livelihoo
by mortenjorck 8y ago
To you and me, it’s about as obvious a red flag as can be. To a struggling small-business owner with a staff of dozens all depending on them for their livelihoods, it’s probably a little bit murkier.
Imagine writing some really bad code under an extremely tight deadline. You know it’s a bad idea, you know it’ll be miserable to maintain, and that it’s a very brittle solution, but you write a few all-caps comments around it and a self-deprecating joke in the commit message, and resolve to refactor it once the deadline has passed.
The process of taking on bad tech debt is very, very similar to the process of taking on bad regular debt.
- phkahler 8y ago>> To you and me, it’s about as obvious a red flag as can be. To a struggling small-business owner with a staff of dozens all depending on them for their livelihoods, it’s probably a little bit murkier. When your payments will be $800 per DAY I don't understand how the cost of having a lawyer look it over is of any consequence.
- ambicapter 8y agoYou know, not everything in life requires a code analogy. This one is particularly egregious because outside of Hollywood I've never heard of code intentionally deceiving its author.