This is a really relevant article. These days there are legions of programmers who don't think about underlying issues and just throw clever hacks in to get things working and move on. Worse yet, some of these types end up in managerial roles where they expect others to work as quickly and sloppily as they used to.
It's worth noting that the "clever hacks in to get things working and move on" has proved to be a fairly decent business model for smaller projects or smaller companies. Creates ugly code, sure...
agreed. But there is a difference between knowingly doing something sloppy to get things done in the short term versus working like that on a regular basis and thinking it's just how programs are written.
