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One thing I have learned over the years: It is easy to write "this is crap code" over a lot of production code I have seen. But making it better, writing consis
by iSnow 14y ago
One thing I have learned over the years: It is easy to write "this is crap code" over a lot of production code I have seen. But making it better, writing consistently great code in the usual environment is much harder.
Don't let the macho attitude of HN infect you too much - a lot of people here (and elsewhere) are great in criticizing others.
- Illotus 14y ago+1. When you have whole pile of pretty bad code to maintain, it is very difficult to make the fixes significantly better within the time you have to make the fix. Usually significant improvements would require extensive refactoring which is feasible or sensible in surprisingly few cases. Though, I have to admit, bitching about other peoples' code is fun.