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by marcosdumay 3292 days ago
> Even as a manager it's the gaffatape programmers who end up saving the day rather than the best practices.

Yes, the other ones are to busy fixing the gaffatape programmers' code to ensure the last day will stay saved.

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I allcate more resources into fixing people who followed best practices wrongly, than I do into fixing what my gaffatape programmers made.

The thing about gaffatape programmers is that they learn how to do things that won't end up biting us in the ass later because they are thinking about what, why, and, how they are doing things by default, rather than following orders. Well some of them learn, the rest have short careers.

I mean, as I said, I don't advocate against best practices. If you want to gaffatapetape, you need to know best practices, because you need to understand why you are not following them.