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The other side of this is how nearly every engineer is going to trash talk the prior coders, when they inherit a codebase. So I already know to ignore it.

• cmckn 5y ago
  > trash talk the prior coders This is one of the things that make the software life worth living! It's even better when you realize that the prior coder was, in fact, your own damn self.
  • vmception 5y ago
    Its so embarrassing Junior engineer logic
  • tbrownaw 5y ago
    > It's even better when you realize that the prior coder was, in fact, your own damn self. That's really about the only time you can actually be sure that the prior coder deserves to be trash talked.
• strken 5y ago
  One of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me is "Feel free to blame all the problems on me once I leave." Whenever I leave a team now, I make sure to give everyone explicit permission to do so.