• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The worst codebase I ever inherited like this was a Magento shop that had been heavily customized by a Czech programmer. All of the customizations had variables in Czech. The guy dropped off the grid after the handover.

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    4 months ago

    I’m in this picture and I am okay with that.

    I call it “mentorship”. Not the part where I leave you with a pile of my crappy code. The part where I ask for more money, and I leave if I don’t get it.

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    I see a lot of that going around my place of work lately. Sucks to see the knowledge pool get more shallow around here.

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      4 months ago

      The good news is that it’s a self correcting problem.

      The bad news is the correction is often due to going out of business.

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    4 months ago

    Was expecting this to be more like the “i made this” comic, where in the last panel he hands it over again to someone else.

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      4 months ago

      It can be.

      It can also come with more money.

      The whole two weeks notice thing is kind of dull, though.