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[–] [email protected] 89 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] marlowe221 21 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] jaybone 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Is there a generator for these?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

There are a few from a search, this one came up with a GitHub repo. https://arthurbeaulieu.github.io/ORlyGenerator/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just use the paint, internet person

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Bu-but we're programmers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Do you have more of these memes? I'd like to see more.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Here's some more.

Shared this with my team just recently. Guess there is a lot more of these brilliant edits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nice! Thanks. :3

Is there a bigger resolution btw?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

From the last time this came up I got most of them from this guys collection.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/11139658

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Nice collection. Thanks! :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Thank you for this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I enjoy this too, but it’s kind of rough when you’ve inverted control, teased apart unnecessary coupling, updated dependencies and backed everything with unit and other tests, but then your colleagues are too scared to code review it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Yes, me too! But, only if I have the autonomy to improve things where I can. Otherwise, I just find it demotivating

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Feeling of deleting lines > Feeling of adding lines

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Ha, turns out there's one for that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I find that working on production code with well defined use cases and requirements to be the most satisfying, and working on new proof of concept / demos / marketing tools to be the least satisfying.

So on balance, more of the legacy projects I've worked on have fit those criteria than the new builds, but the couple of new builds that had well defined use cases, and no legacy code to deal with were the absolute best.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

also, your own code after you've spent time away from it.

[–] ikidd 19 points 4 days 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.

[–] Gustephan 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

git blame giveth and git blame taketh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

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