Source: https://xkcd.com/2730/
I always say I write throwaway code that never dies. I shutter to think how many pieces of code I wrote 10+ years ago are still buried deep in systems running today. Shutter.
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I think you mean shudder. Unless the code you wrote is running on cameras.
The most permanent solution is jank that works.
There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
I feel personally attacked.
As with relationships, if you make a mistake you'll wind up supporting it for life.
I kid, I kid. We all know to job hop every 2 years for better compensation. It'll be someone else's problem after that.
Yes, yes, and someone else's problem will be your problem after the job hop! :)
I really think that optimization courses should have a special lecture in the optimization of optimization...
It is always the worst code you wrote that survives. There's a terrible university dorm management software I wrote eight years ago as a student. They still use it. The crazy complicated test framework wrappers for some hardware I wrote five years ago. They still use it. The godawful and crazy complicated communication protocol I whipped up four years ago, still used in medical equipment today.
The crappy scripts that I wrote while teaching myself to code at an electrical engineering / architecture firm are used more often than the professional software I've built for FAANG and Fortune 500 companies since.
oof, this comic hurts so bad it's funny.
I have a mental image of 50+ lines that could be replaced with 15 if someone just used a loop.
hey depending on the code, it could run faster without the loop