> To come into someone else's codebase that has umpteen number of iterations and tough business realities like trying to make money, and proclaiming that it's terrible code and how he would fix it, is delusional and self-aggrandizing.
And yet that is exactly the reality one faces in such projects (because the only valid code metric is "WTFs/minute" [1]. Point is, I've never heard anybody complaining about arrogance until now - usually the devs are very well aware where and how their code sucks and they usually are overly apologetic even though I understand the constraints the code was written under (some of which you described).
And yet that is exactly the reality one faces in such projects (because the only valid code metric is "WTFs/minute" [1]. Point is, I've never heard anybody complaining about arrogance until now - usually the devs are very well aware where and how their code sucks and they usually are overly apologetic even though I understand the constraints the code was written under (some of which you described).
[1] http://www.osnews.com/images/comics/wtfm.jpg