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A technical debt generator's confession.
by _random_ 12y ago
A technical debt generator's confession.
- bgun 12y agoCongratulations, you're part of the problem.
- _random_ 12y agoThe problem is the people who are in this profession just for the money are whose low quality code I have to keep rewriting at almost every job so far.
- karmajunkie 12y agoI've rewritten a shit ton of code in my life, a great deal of it written originally by developers who A) claimed to love the profession; B) thought they knew what good code looked like; C) were wrong. And you know what else? Somebody probably came behind me and did the same thing a few times. Pretending nobody's ever cleaned up your mess is just pretentious.
- wdewind 12y agoActually, I worked with Garann at Etsy, and she's great. In fact I can think of numerous occasions in which she paid down organizational technical debt. She says this in the article: > I made a very successful career of programming while entirely motivated by having a good paying job, and at the risk of being a braggart, I was a good programmer. and she is right.
- _random_ 12y agoNo offense, but it means either you are both indeed great or none of you are, which one is true I will never know.
- argonaut 12y agoThe extent to which this is dismissive is quite offensive.
- wdewind 12y agoHow about this: instead of flat out accusing the author of causing technical debt (essentially an ad-hominem attack), why not disagree with the substance of her argument. That is: that one does not truly need to be passionate about this industry to be both successful and good at your job, and that the assumption that one does is keeping qualified people out of our industry. That way you don't need to worry about whether or not we are great. It's truly immaterial.