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by bdangubic 956 days ago
If I had a dollar for everytime I heard “we had a tight deadline” as an answer to a question “why is this code so shi*y” I’d have more money than Musk.

There is no good code vs. bad code, there are just good programmers and bad ones.

And given how many programmers there are in total, roughly 98.76% of them are the bad ones :)

I am in my 26th year of this career and I can count on one had situations where a bad programmer wrote good code and good programmer wrote bad code.

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I’d consider myself a good coder, and though I have the standard number of digits, I do not have enough to count the number of times I’ve written bad code. But I’ve written a lot of code, and over the decades I’ve learned a lot. I think that process requires some bad code along the way.
I would love to see an example of your code, please!
$450/hr - nothing comes free
Sure, if it's as good as you say! Let's make a deal :)
And this is not a total narcissistic opinion at all. Just say all programmers are bad except you.
If you actually read my comment I never said I was the good one mate ;)