[ferdterguson]

One thing they mentioned in the 'left out' section is code review. I'm a researcher in a computation-heavy field and I think that anything I write that is intended to be used in our research group or used by other people should be code reviewed. In my experience, so many codes written by former group members or by senior group members become blackboxes that no one can read or maintain in five years.

Code review for anything more complicated than a script has helped the quality of what I write. It also ensures that there are other people who have at least seen the code that I wrote. Even if they don't fully understand it, they are at least empowered enough to wade through it if need be.

[sgt101]

Apparently google rewite all code every three years.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1702/1702.01715.pdf

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[padthai]

I am there. We learn to please our master as our ancestors taught us in our rich oral tradition.

I hope that this undocumented and fragile big codebase dies before killing the PhD of some poor guy.