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Are You Proud of Your Code?

An anonymous reader writes "I am downright embarrassed by the quality of my code. It is buggy, slow, fragile, and a nightmare to maintain. Do you feel the same way? If so, then what is holding you back from realizing your full potential? More importantly, what if anything are you planning to do about it? I enjoy programming and have from a young age (cut my teeth on BASIC on an Apple IIe). I have worked for companies large and small in a variety of languages and platforms. Sadly the one constant in my career is that I am assigned to projects that drift, seemingly aimlessly, from inception to a point where the client runs out of funding. Have any developers here successfully lobbied their company to stop or cut back on 'cowboy coding' and adopt best practices? Has anyone convinced their superiors that the customer isn't always right and saying no once in awhile is the best course of action?"

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  1. creators' planet/population rescue kode nearly... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    perfected. it only needs yOUR input to become the 'next big thing'.

    the creators will prevail. as it has always been.

    corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
    (Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
    by ourselves on everyday 24/7

    as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption.

    fortunately there's an 'army' of light bringers, coming yOUR way

    do not be afraid/dismayed, it is the way it was meant to be.

    the little ones/innocents must/will be protected.

    after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit?

    for each of the creators' innocents harmed (in any way), there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile, will not be available.

    all is not lost/forgotten/forgiven.

    no need to fret (unless you're associated/joined at the hype with, unprecedented evile), it's all just a part of the creators' wwwildly popular, newclear powered, planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.

    or, is it (literally) ground hog (as in dead meat) day, again? many of US are obviously not interested in/aware of how we appear (which is whoreabull) from the other side of the 'lens', or even from across the oceans.

    vote with (what's left in) yOUR wallet. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owned felonious corepirate nazi glowbull warmongering execrable.

    some of US should consider ourselves very fortunate to be among those scheduled to survive after the big flash/implementation of the creators' wwwildly popular planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.

    it's right in the manual, 'world without end', etc....

    as we all ?know?, change is inevitable, & denying/ignoring gravity, logic, morality, etc..., is only possible, on a temporary basis.

    concern about the course of events that will occur should the life0cidal execrable fail to be intervened upon is in order.

    'do not be dismayed' (also from the manual). however, it's ok/recommended, to not attempt to live under/accept, fauxking nazi felon greed/fear/ego based pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking hypenosys.

    consult with/trust in yOUR creators. providing more than enough of everything for everyone (without any distracting/spiritdead personal gain motives), whilst badtolling unprecedented evile, using an unlimited supply of newclear power, since/until forever. see you there?

    "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

  2. Re:The virtue of constraint, and other musings... by rdrd · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You wrote:
    "two women can't make one baby in four and a half months..."

    Really? Solution: One will do an abortion at 4 1/2 mo, the other carries further the pregnancy.

    So mod me down ...

  3. Proud of MY code? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm proud of fixing YOUR code.

  4. Re:The virtue of constraint, and other musings... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How does that solve the 'problem'? All it accomplishes is 2 women producing 1 baby in 9 months (which is still pretty amazing, considering the lack of men). It doesn't speed up anything.

    Mod him down.

  5. Re:Something to note about other people's opinions by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you want employ in Boulder, drop me a line. We're a small ( 50) person company that thinks like you do. gmail, address is OldSchoolGeek