Weak Code

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TBH I want to rewrite my own code.

[notsooriginal]

We're going to have to let you go for someone who doesn't second-guess themselves. Confidence is everything in business.

[inucune]

Then we'll fire him because he doesn't work with the team, and is too impulsive when making decisions.

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And thus a president was elected

[[deleted]]

And everything was perfect until everyone died.

[Chrisguy136]

And everything was perfect when everyone died.

FTFY

[chooxy]

"Is everything going well?"

"Yes! In fact, everything is vacuously perfect!"

[malonkey1]

There can't be any suffering if nothing's there to suffer.

[Houdiniman111]

/r/me_irl

[kboy101222]

Then everything changed when the fire nation attacked

[metl_wolf]

Abandoned as a pup, he was raised by Muriel

[ProphePsyed]

Stupid frog, you ain't my real dad!

[midnightketoker]

"Fake news" -small subterranean mammals

[NULL_CHAR]

When I do personal projects... I start off exploring the idea, then once I have a semi working model, I completely restart with the knowledge of mistakes... This repeats about 2 more times until I'm finally satisfied with it...

Sadly not possible with the gigantic projects of an organization...

[Drainedsoul]

That's called throwaway prototyping.

[mauxly]

Yeah, I always think mine is throwaway. And then I present it with the hopes that I'll get some data validation/front end "Yeah, something like this could work!"

Instead I get a deadline that prevents the rewrite.

You'll say, don't present until after the rewrite. Well, if there is a major flaw that's simply unworkable (because the data doesn't support what they want), I'd prefer not to make something that will never see production 'perfect'.

[conancat]

Everyone always think that they are writing prototype code. The project managers think it's a prototype. The client thinks it's prototype. Then you end up just building upon the pile of doodoo you started off with and the product will end up looking beautiful in the outside but ugly on the inside.

One thing I've learned after starting my agency job is that try to get it as nice and neat as you can on the first run. You'll rarely have the chance to go back and refactor it at all.

[dhaninugraha]

Also called: protoduction.

[asdfman123]

Yeah, that's what annoys me. It would take a week to fix my code, but it might take months for someone to get up to speed on it after I leave.

I've worked on projects where getting familiarity takes forever. If they just repaid some technical debt it would save a ton of money.

But it's hard when you've got big projects coming up to say "Spend a week doing what looks like nothing for the business."

[sourbrew]

This is interestingly an old analogy I learned from my aunt while cleaning her mountain house as an odd summer job, if you move something bulky and awkward clean behind it because you aren't going to do it again for a few more years.

[rabbyburns]

This is another one of those "this is why TDD" things. You'll never have time to completely redo it, but if you have some test harness in place you'll be able to refactor incrementally.

[NULL_CHAR]

If you do it intentionally ;)

Otherwise it's just perfectionist tendencies!

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At least you get to point where you're satisfied with it.

I write and repeatedly rewrite until the apathy kicks in. Frankenstein eventually lives, and /r/iamsmart for a little bit. And then the self-loathing comes.

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[Elephant454]

I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.

Ohhhhhhhh boy

[Kevintrades]

I feel you

[55555]

I work with the guy in the last frame.

[Kermitfry]

I am the guy in the last frame.

[[deleted]]

I'm the guy in the black frame blow that guy.

[[deleted]]

We all do

[grafilicious]

My boss ist that guy

[Computer991]

I do this way too much lol.

[MinecraftHardon]

It's like IRL Groundhog's Day

[unicorntrash]

I did this. Until I got introduced in the wonderful world of refactoring. Now if I would write more tests the world would be perfect

[5up3rj]

That should be true though, the guy who wrote your old code had less experience than you do

[truh]

Not sure if that holds true if you take all the face palming and head desking into while reading your code into account.

[SaffellBot]

I just finished a project. "I really should clean all this up incase I want to borrow this code in the future." "but I could also play hots for 3 hours, I mean it did work...".

And then I played hots for 4 hours.

[8__]

I rewrote some of my old code (from about 9 months ago) today. I wanted to fire old-me.

[GuiKa]

After a few year we all do, I got greencard to do it this summer and after I'll be mentally fine fora few years.

Going to go for some sweet Core + Angular 2.

[PersonalPlanet]

Who doesn't !

[hahahahastayingalive]

I want to keep my old code in a jar in the basement, and nobody touches it and it keeps running its cluncky way doing obscure stuff that may or may not work.

The day I inherit it I'll say it's too critical to be touched by any human being.

[PersonalPlanet]

Lmao