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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...
you should thank them for the long term employment
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.