death by software engineering

[Adam L. Beberg]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Lucas Gonze wrote:

> Ok, I'm hacking for fun within an established project.  This should be
> quick and easy, except that the coders are so incredibly conscientious
> that every single line of code is a maze of config files, flag
> Interfaces, constant declarations located elsewhere, names of constant
> declarations loaded elsewhere that are themselves loaded elsewhere, etc.

It's called job security. Ask anyone who lived back in the pre-boom times.

The old rules are back, get used to it. Start figuring out how to get anyone
who knows the system better then you fired.

- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
  http://www.iit.edu/~beberg/
  beberg@mithral.com