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As someone who has inherited code like that, I would like to strangle the first programmer in the comic.
"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."
The use of "would have" instead of "will have" is making my eye twitch...
I know him, for he is me.
Do you own the company or something?
Nope, just inherited a colleague's codebase when they left. It's years later and I still haven't sorted it all out.
you should thank them for the long term employment