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by DropInIn 1072 days ago
And then a coworker/boss is at your desk with you and needs to show you how to do something and cannot for the life of them grok wtf your personalized bs is, requiring them to go get their own absurdly personalized mess to show you, and still you both have problems because the workload they showed you tonsave an hour a day would require you to pull out massive chunks of your personalized bs in order to add in a huge chunk of their personalized bs.

And that doesn't even get into what happens on shared machines (servers etc) where your entire workflow either doesn't work or entirely prevents others from being able to get anything done on the machine.

Really.... we all recognize the value of standardization when it comes to our code but yall fight tooth and nail about standardization in other aspects of the profession.... and then wonder why everything is a buggy unintelligible mess at 99% of workplaces and projects...