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by throwaway2037 659 days ago 

    > but his customer / employer bought low quality code with lots of tech debt.
Sarcastic reply: Isn't that most tech? Even good (above average) developer produce lots of tech debt and sometimes low quality code.
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b112 659 days ago
"Webdev" makes me think of wordpress, which is like planting 20 onions in your backyard, and comparing yourself to a farmer with acres of crops.

I can completely believe someone had no idea what they were doing when copy/pasting, and working on wordpress.

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datavirtue 659 days ago
Yeah, and the business people could not care less. I am on a team taking in millions of dollars from a Delphi Windows app from 1997. Zero tests, horribly mangled business logic embedded in UI handlers. Maintaining that app is not feasible. I'm rebuilding a modern version of it only because it is embarrassing to demo and is such a UX nightmare that our distributor made us commit to a new app.
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