The Daily WTF

Jessica has worked with some cunning developers in the past. To help cope with some of that “cunning”, they’ve recently gone out searching for new developers.

Now, there were some problems with their job description and salary offer, specifically, they were asking for developers who do too much and get paid too little. Which is how Jessica started working with Blair. Jessica was hoping to staff up her team with some mid-level or junior developers with a background in web development. Instead, she got Blair, a 13+ year veteran who had just started doing web development in the past six months.

Now, veteran or not, there is a code review process, so everything Blair does goes through code review. And that catches some… annoying habits, but every once in awhile, something might sneak through. For example, he thinks static is a code smell, and thus removes the keyword any time

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