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Revisited: The greatest programming tip ever written

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But it still makes the point, doesn't it?

When you meet the serial killer face-to-face, ask him if he prefers to be called a maniac, or maniacal.

I'm not a programmer, but I can surely commiserate with the sentiment. I have one edit to generalize it for my industry.

Replace "code" with "design". Possibly replace "maintain" with "build", although our end users maintain it also, so it'd carry through either way.

Do programmers ever consider their work a design, or is it always just "code"?

Many, many years ago I was an admin for a niche computer/operating system. One of the users went off his meds shortly after I upgraded the OS. I explained what changes he'd have to make to his code to keep it working and he wasn't too happy. Coworkers would smile as they came to 'check on me'. A couple weeks and incidents later (fortunately not w/me) he was on indefinite medical.

Now that I think of it, how many of us could use the meds excuse if Windows 8 was forced upon us at work

Write it as though you were going to have to maintain it, after a bout of amnesia...

Course if the you is me, it's doubly scary on account of my maniacal tendencies.

Just like the POTUS, when you get that 3AM call...
but in this case what does the code look like?

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