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		agentultra on Dec 6, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I love solo programming (and why I hated worki... As long as you document your style, I totally agree. Nothing like it, if you're lucky enough to be blazing the trail. The problem is for engineers who come in after you've left for greener pastures. If you don't document your style, design decisions, and over-all development process you're leaving behind a legacy... of miserable programmers who will make up stories about how awful you must have been.

zeemonkee on Dec 6, 2010 [–]

Document, comment appropriately and write tests.

The engineer in question might be yourself, six months or a year later, and you will have completely forgotten what you were doing back then.

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