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		bragr on Sept 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Timeless Way of Programming >Good people produce good code, or "timeless" code, bad people write "bad" code (means it's a tech debt). That's some really reductive moralism that does not take into account any external factors on why the bad code was written. Do you really think you're a good person because you're code is good?

sixstringtheory on Sept 5, 2022 [–]

> Do you really think you're a good person because you're code is good?

That’s a bit of putting the cart before the horse… what if they think they’re a bad person because their code is bad?

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