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grlthgn on June 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Makes Great Programmers Different?

The problem is when your cowboy coder leaves your company, you are fucked. The code is undocumented, and incomprehensible. It works but you have no idea how it works and neither does anybody else.

gfosco on June 7, 2012 [–]

I think that may just be a straw-man argument. It should not be difficult to figure out how it works, the logic is laid out right in front of you.

There is always a learning curve when taking over a project.

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