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Coming into a 20+ year old tech stack spread across 3 or 4 languages and versions of the languages. Oh, and no/minimal documentation, badly named programs (SR1145S is "student demographics" - who knew!), bad table structure, etc.
While writing code is trivial for me (been programming since the early 80s) it took most of a year of frequent "hey, where's this and how is this supposed to work" conversations and picking stuff apart so I could write the documentation that was missing.
Also, as an instructor (linux admin, java, sql) I tend to bring teaching into all sorts of stuff, so when we get new devs with not a lot of experience I often get to spend a few hours per week with them for the first month or so...
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“IN MY EXPERIENCE, SUSAN, WITHIN THEIR HEADS TOO MANY HUMANS SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN THE MIDDLE OF WARS THAT HAPPENED CENTURIES AGO.”
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