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Unless you want to seem clever and impresse the PHB.

It is the selfish (but smart) thing to do.




I'm not sure who the PHB is, but I'm certainly not impressed by anything cryptic in a codebase. Deliberately writing code that's hard to understand should be a firing offense.


PHB: Pointy Haired Boss


In that case, the smart thing to do is not to work for the PHB, rather than pervert your craft in an attempt to impress him/her.




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