• gjoel@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    When you have a great programmer working on your project he will be cycled to a new project in 2-3 months. Your new senior developer who silently takes over the project is part time because he’s working on finishing his education.

    No one knows how anything works, except that one guy, who left the company half a year ago. That’s how all software development is.

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      1 year ago

      Throw in a mysterious comment that says “Don’t change anything below this line or everything breaks” and it’s complete.

      “We don’t know why this works, but it does, don’t touch it.” would also be acceptable.

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        “The server mangles the authentication token after receiving it for reasons we don’t really understand, so this function just checks to see that it’s set in the request, but nothing actually cares if it’s valid. DO NOT RETURN USER ACCOUNT DATA HERE AND YES THAT MEANS YOU MARCUS”