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Just "don't bitch" period.

• masukomi 7y ago
  other 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 ago
    All existing code is bad code.
  • brianwawok 7y ago
    It 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.