- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- programmer_humor@programming.dev
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I’ve written those same comments so many times over the years.
We all pretend our code doesn’t stink, but show me a developer who’s never left a a turd in a codebase, and I’ll show you someone who’s never been under a deadline.
############################## # ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE BE WARNED # THIS ISN'T MY FAULT, BUT $TOOL ONLY # ALLOWS THIS DIRTY WORKAROUND # # DO NOT CHANGE OR REFACTOR # ANYTHING. # # IF YOU NEED TO TOUCH THIS CODE # INCREMENT THIS COUNTER AS A # WARNING FOR THE NEXT POOR FUCK # # TOTAL HOURS WASTED DEBUGGING # 15 # TOTAL HOURS WASTED REFACTORING # 8 # SUCCESSFUL CHANGES # 0 ##############################
Too many companies living aboard the sunk-cost ship. Burn that trash to the ground.
General life advice: sometimes its more cost-effective to start over from scratch
And this is XML, right? Oof
