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> he'd renamed his parameters with single characters to guarantee future work.

Then they hired an intern with compiler experience and suddenly his help wasn't needed anymore

I was recently having a conversation where I speculated that with how bad some programmers are at naming things, some code reviews might actually be easier if you ran them through a code obfuscator first, so you can focus on what the code does rather than being tricked into making invalid assumptions by misleading names.

This gives me a great inspiration for a programming puzzle and learning method:

Replace all variable/function names with generics. Your only job is to give names to every variable (trying to figure out what each does). After you're done you can compare to de-obfuscated names to see if they do what you expected (if they're named sensibly).

Build the MVP!

A bit much on my plate. Care to join in?

well, kinda. anyway, legless ahole only got one day of high-rate consulting for his trouble.

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