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Discussion on: How To Feel Good Deleting “Dead Code”

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Cubicle Buddha

That’s wonderful Rachel. Do your peers share your passion for dead code hunting?

I know some of the devs on my prior teams don’t get it. So that’s why I included references in the article. How have you helped convince your peers that it’s worth spending the time?

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Rachel Soderberg

My team is very small (just me as the .net dev, a web dev, and our manager) so I get to be in my own code-hunting silo most of the time, which can be nice for making those decisions without push back!

My manager loves that I maintain and delete dead code, and part of the reason is because he isn't so good about doing it himself (though he likes the idea of the practice).

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Cubicle Buddha

Way to go. Great initiative! :)