Something I explained to Jessica today: It's possible to have code that works but that no one really understands. In fact, not just possible, but the default.
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It's interesting that you think it's the default. I don't have enough experience to make the claim Is it because engineers fail to capture what's happening outside the code? I see this happen when engineers move. But, companies ought to have processes in place to capture this?
Haven't you ever gone back to look at code you wrote a year ago and found it hard to understand?
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Definitely. I consider it a valuable hint on how to write better code. I don't know if this is just pre-meditating contexts, but it helps me think of how I'd come back to my code and what I'll change this time around.
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year? Can't understand the code I wrote 3 months ago. :(
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I had seen some code with descriptions like “damned if I know”. Engineers can be funny.
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In my first dev job, our client had a printer in the corner a server room. It filled a box each day with printouts that were taken directly to the trash. When I asked if we could just turn those off, I got laughed out of the room. No one had any idea what would break.
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Hahaha, this is hilarious!
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100% - I almost always hate myself for the variable names I choose that, at the time, seemed to make sense, but objectively make no sense whatsoever.
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I've noticed the variable 'joe' appears in the Zrankings codebase on occasion. This phenomenon is not exclusive to one contributor.
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That applies to not all the code we write. I've got some pieces from several years ago which I can read, understand and, after a cup of coffee, even work on.
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