• marlowe221@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I might be in the minority, but I get more excited about the idea of maintaining/working on some creaky old legacy code base than I do about the idea of starting a new project from scratch.

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        2 months ago

        That is the strangest thing, going back into a program and thinking “what the hell was that guy thinking?” and then realizing it was me.

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        2 months ago

        What fucking ass for brains engineer wrote this dogshit code!!! I’m gonna scroll back to the header find out who wrote and give a piece of my mind to… myself x.x

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          2 months ago

          git blame giveth and git blame taketh

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        2 months ago

        The time varies but starts at about 1 day for me…