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Gavin W • Edited

I also find doing my own code reviews useful.

Looking back on code I wrote perhaps even a year ago I sometimes think: "Why the hell did I do that, that's stupid?".

I also sometimes catch unused variables and unnecessary ones that can be refactored and/or pruned. The brain has a way of blocking things out when you're working on something that looking back a year becomes obvious as your brain thinks it's fresh code.

And as you're always learning, perhaps there was a function in an API you wasn't aware of so you wrote it or sculpted a workaround for it using other functions.

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David Leger

Haha, I look back on code I wrote last week and think it's stupid. :P

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Meyer Zinn

"When I wrote this, only God and I knew what I was thinking. Now only God knows."