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Dealing with Someone Else’s Code: Misery and Happiness (thefullstack.xyz)
1 point by dtzur on March 17, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> You see the programmers in Jessica’s front end dev team had an informal agreement: “You don’t touch my code, I don’t touch your code, and everyone is happy.” This agreement held surprisingly well most of the time.

This is a cultural problem that will always come back to bite you.




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