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I worked at a startup that indulged in pair programming thing. Where as a junior, you'd be partnered with a senior developer.

My mentor, always insisted on having shortest variable names possible, so that the "size of codebase" will be very small.

It was a nightmare going through his code and understanding what's he's done. Best part, no comments as well.

In a way it has primed me to go through any codebase possible.

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  • 1
    That would really bug me, especially since by the time it gets to Assembly level, the variable name lengths make no difference at all
  • 1
    Wtf, I would have told this guy to just edit binary files then. Don't bother with source code, which takes so much space
  • 2
    (Thinking about it, he probably needed so much space to store p0rn)
  • 1
    Where is he living? 90s? There is so much space to store the source. Idiot
  • 0
    @py2js lol. He was pretty old, but except him no one in the company indulged in such practices. Anyway, towards end of my internship, he had sit through a code readability workshop.
    After that, he became better.
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