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title = "Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Don't Defend Bad Code"
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date = 2019-07-31
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tags = ["en-au", "books", "things i learnt", "personal", "bad code", "defend"]
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Bad code exists everywhere. You shouldn't defend it, even if it is your own
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code.
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Bad code isn't bad on purpose. It sadly happens. But because it is bad, you
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shouldn't defend it.
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For example, an application does whatever you need. But it crashes from time
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to time. Software shouldn't crash and you shouldn't defend it just because it
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does whatever you need.
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Your internal application works on a single browser. That's bad. "But maybe
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the other devs thought it wouldn't be worth working on all browsers". No. It
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is _bad_. You shouldn't defend the other devs because they decided to focus on
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a single browser due whatever problems they were facing. Sure it wasn't nice
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that they had to do this trade-off, but it is still _bad_ software.
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If we keep defending this kind of software, we will still get bad software.
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