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I have a term for a particular type of overstuffed function or god object. I call it the 'duties as assigned.' Like an employee that gets hired to do a simple job, and then finds out that his job description also includes 'duties as assigned.'
Had a guy on a project who was supposed to write a function to do one simple thing, yet he decided to also use that function to accomplish every other task he felt needed to be achieved in the project.
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Stack Overflow – like most online communities I've studied – naturally trends toward increased strictness over time. It's primarily a defense mechanism, an immune system of the sort a child develops after first entering school or daycare and being exposed to the wide, wide world of everyday sne...
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