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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Naw. Not knowing pisses me off. I'm gonna have to deal with it again in the future, probably, so might as well set some time aside to figure out wtf is happening.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

The only thing worse than code that should be working not working is code where you're sure it won't work, but then it actually works!

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Exactly this. If you don't know, it's broken.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

i used to believe in this; but then i learned the hard way that old/opaque code is gross game of hot potato where you will pay the price if your social standing in your organization isn't privileged enough.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Guess I was lucky to have a social standing privileged enough, as a junior dev.

But also, probably because they actually required determinism, with it being critical and all.