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by munk-a 1083 days ago
I started in the dirtiest ugliest codebase imaginable. I worked on a MUD descended from DikuMUD (and originally written by native danish speakers). Seeing code that ugly that worked and making it better, faster and more readable gave me the confidence that I can make a significant impact. Moving into the professional world I found that corners are constantly cut and I can always clean up shoddy implementations and make them cleaner. I've gone on to be a developer, data architect, lead and manager and it's always great to find new experiences.