Excuses For Lazy Coders

17    08 Aug 2015 02:32 by u/14d2025

10 comments

5

My favorite is "I'm retiring."

3

Management insisted we wouldn't need to waste our time writing unit tests

So many problems that could be fixed by writing unit tests up front...

0

I couldn't agree more.

2

"This feature would be outside of scope" As a freelancer, I feel I really need to learn to say this more often.

1

"I couldn't pawn the work off on my $5/h Indian coworkers that don't speak an intelligible dialect of English or have any programming skill whatsoever, but it's somebody else's fault it's not done yet. Yeah the guys that were fired, it's their fault."

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It's a known bug with the programming language.

Well, as long as the programmer doesn't understand how the programming language works or how to use it correctly, I guess that's okay...

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Having played the Borland 4.0 C++ compiler that came out in a Sam's "Learn C++ in 21 Days" back in the '90's for about a year, I can assure you that specific compilers can be very buggy indeed.

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"Works for me!"