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One Man's Battle Against Mediocrity 
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I'm in code review hell with a personal project of mine.

Every couple of months I realize anew why I should never write code when I'm sleepy, or after I've had a few drinks, etc... I always come back to it later and end up scrunching up my nose.

Actually, that happens often enough when I'm awake and completely sober, I suppose. I always return to code I've written and wonder why I went the long way round, or why I'm duplicating storage space for similar data, or what on earth made me assign a single data swap to concurrent processes.

So I've decided I'm not adding any more functionality until I've got all the code properly documented, aligned to spec, and optimized to a point where I don't grimace when I'm reading it.

I hate that - I've got a *bunch* of ideas I want to implement in this codebase right now, but I know that if I start work on any of them, I'll just be contributing to the tangle.

Aargh.

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Nov 08, 2008
Alex said...
Hey. I feel lame leaving this here, but my last email went unreplied-to and then your eceria email account bounced. If that was intentional just say the word. If not, could you let me know you're still breathing? I feel google-stalkerish enough having googled to find this much contact info.

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