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Also, Don't bitch about other's code. You don't know in what constraints they have to write it.
by codesternews 7y ago
Also, Don't bitch about other's code. You don't know in what constraints they have to write it.
- bobosha 7y agoJust "don't bitch" period.
- masukomi 7y agoother than avoiding hurting people's feelings. why not? (honestly asking) bad code should be called out. It's reasonable to feel frustrated by bad to terrible decisions that your predecessors made and left you to clean up the consequences of. when a group of people is presented with a shitty situation verbally commiserating with your co-sufferers is a form of group therapy. Yes, it has to be tempered with hope and humor, but... bitching is good. Cynicism actually helps ward off burnout (barely, but it's one thing that contributes to warding it off).
- haecceity 7y agoAll existing code is bad code.
- brianwawok 7y agoIt also leads to (in excess), a not great work environment
- around_here 7y ago“Bad code” is entirely subjective based on unclear standards. We had one engineer bitch about some solution that wasn’t “elegant” enough for him and he proceeded to waste 2 days “fixing” it.
- stinos 7y agoYou mean apart from code review?
- mceachen 7y agoThere's a huge gap between bitching about bad code and coaching someone to refactor code into a good (or at least better) state. A code review is ideally the latter.