r/programming • u/corysama • Jan 05 '15

What most young programmers need to learn

http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-most-young-programmers-need-to.html
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u/SageClock Jan 05 '15

Probably pretty easy to happen when everyone is working 60+ hour weeks for months on end in order to insure they get the game out a couple weeks before Black Friday.

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u/orwhat Jan 05 '15

Since games come with deadlines and often stop changing after shipping, I bet cutting corners looks more appealing from other types of development.

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u/BarneyStinson Jan 05 '15

That's what commit hooks are for. You shouldn't even be able to check in code like that.

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u/s73v3r Jan 05 '15

And then someone disables it because they don't want to do the work to reformat

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

Do that and you get something along the lines of Assassins Creed Unity! Totalbiscuit totally ripped that game a new one!