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by Jtsummers 1961 days ago
Yes, they do get offended. I've done that before because the code was shit. I appreciated that he got it done faster than I would have, but I didn't appreciate that:

1. He wouldn't clean it up.

2. I had to clean it up (it needed to be kept around and extended).

3. He got all the credit even though his was an unmaintainable, unextendible (necessary for the effort, not just a want) mess.

4. I was the one who, after cleaning it up, actually made it a deliverable and added the critical missing parts (around extensibility).