Me, training new guy and showing some of my older work as examples. Him: "Don't... don't they get mad at you for that?" Me, in my head: First of all, how dare you. Second of all, you bring up an excellent point.
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Listen I'm all for a clever hack but if this is the level of your metaphor go find an engineer. Unless it's a hotfix.
What’s funny is many hot fixes with fast turnarounds utilize those kind of interactions. “We found this horrible thing that works, but lets leave it in, we’ll use it for something!”