Maintaining Quality at Scale

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15 pointsjterenzio3 comments

The textual content of this article is spot on. However i do have to wonder why they chose to show a photo with code that indents 11 levels deep at the top of an article about code quality.

I know it's hard to teach programmers how to avoid situations like that, and how to avoid or reduce duplication, because i struggle with this with most of my colleagues. However in a company where code is the bread and butter of everything the company does, i'd expect things like that to be addressed before tabs-vs-spaces.

To be fair that looks like HTML templating code.

Thanks for the comment. I chose that picture more to capture the spirit of collaboration than to highlight specific code. We still have a lot of legacy code that we're constantly trying to improve.

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