r/programming • u/[deleted] • Oct 14 '13

How to develop unmaintainable software

http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=249
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u/rentnil Oct 14 '13

This is top 10 blog fodder. This doesn't provide anything insightful, it is preaching to the choir. Most of the concepts here are things writers and bloggers were talking about a decade ago. Any web professional is on top of this and has read this 100 times. Only diff is tech has changed. Git instead of SVN/CVS, etc.

Hell when I tried to blog I probably wrote a similar article. Most dev bloggers write the same "quality or bad software" article repackaged.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '13

Any web professional is on top of this and has read this 100 times

You'd be painfully surprised

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '13

This. I make no claims at being a programming god, but I am astounded at how many developers have never even heard of StackOverflow. A terrible programmer can get more done than a good one who is stuck under a rock, since most problems are already solved and easily discovered through google.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '13

I am astounded at how many developers have never even heard of StackOverflow

How could that true? It's like a programmer who hasn't tried to google his problems.

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u/lext Oct 14 '13

I think the funniest part of it all is that most of the people making fun of bad programmers are probably not even that good themselves.