> "If it's not broken don't fix it." Definition of stupid shit is relative though, what's stupid in the codebase today may not have been so stupid 3 years ago.

> "If it's not broken don't fix it." Definition of stupid shit is relative though, what's stupid in the codebase today may not have been so stupid 3 years ago. What might look stupid upon first visit might actually be the only reasonable way to solve the problem. But then there's other stupid shit, hacks for quickly solving a certain edge case. For example abusing Java type erasure and collections. Other stupid shit from experience is avoiding risk of "new" technologies, (Still on CVS).