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Everyone always says the previous developer was crap, sometimes you're right
bad code that works 👍
source: reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/
Maintaining software built by interns who have all quit by now and made zero documentation
Having pets is a good way to prepare yourself for working in a brown-field environment.
When your cat or dog shits on the floor, you get the same feeling as when you need to dive into a legacy code base.
You know you can't just leave it there, and yet you still want to find anything else to do except for touch the pile of shit in the middle of the room.
Meanwhile you know your users are going to end up trampling over it and mashing it into your carpet.
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