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Fred understands that it's unsustainable to always deliver features. Fred has been doing this for years. Fred knows the ropes. Fred has morals and stopped produ

Fred understands that it's unsustainable to always deliver features. Fred has been doing this for years. Fred knows the ropes. Fred has morals and stopped producing garbage code because he knows how painful it is for the whole team. Fred intelligently does it as part of the requested workflow because he knows it'll be heavily scrutinized by non-technical staff. Fred knows that deadlines are made up and don't mean anything, and should probably find a new job because he's not valued within his organization. Be Fred. Get fired.

watwut 6y ago
Based on that strawman story, all other developers despise Fred. So maybe his refactorings are not that great? And if they are great, where is tech lead or other developers in all that that should protect Fred?
- cosmiccatnap 6y ago
  Wooshed over you I see...Fred will get a better job and everyone at the company understands Fred because they are all Fred at heart but they like where they live and they can't afford to spend the time job hunting or moving cities with another kid on the way. Fred doesn't have kids, Fred has projects and ideas and the only people who don't understand why Fred is doing what he's doing are managers who can't understand why they are paying him for a week with no features even though there is a very very good chance he has cut down future development time considerably. Be Fred, quit your crappy job until you find one that can use your talents instead of calling you dead weight for exercising a grain of innovation in an otherwise destitute business grind.
hhas01 6y ago
Refactoring is what you do to existing, rough production code as a prelude to developing new features on top of it, so that the new code is built on a solid foundation and the whole lot doesn’t degenerate into a big ball of mud. Therefore, if refactoring is all that Fred does, he’s not adding value, he’s an OCD hack and/or make-work bluffer who’s masturbating the code for his own gratification. Sack his worthless disruptive ass and move forward already.

watwut 6y ago

Based on that strawman story, all other developers despise Fred. So maybe his refactorings are not that great? And if they are great, where is tech lead or other developers in all that that should protect Fred?

cosmiccatnap 6y ago
Wooshed over you I see...Fred will get a better job and everyone at the company understands Fred because they are all Fred at heart but they like where they live and they can't afford to spend the time job hunting or moving cities with another kid on the way. Fred doesn't have kids, Fred has projects and ideas and the only people who don't understand why Fred is doing what he's doing are managers who can't understand why they are paying him for a week with no features even though there is a very very good chance he has cut down future development time considerably. Be Fred, quit your crappy job until you find one that can use your talents instead of calling you dead weight for exercising a grain of innovation in an otherwise destitute business grind.

hhas01 6y ago

Refactoring is what you do to existing, rough production code as a prelude to developing new features on top of it, so that the new code is built on a solid foundation and the whole lot doesn’t degenerate into a big ball of mud. Therefore, if refactoring is all that Fred does, he’s not adding value, he’s an OCD hack and/or make-work bluffer who’s masturbating the code for his own gratification. Sack his worthless disruptive ass and move forward already.