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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2020-02-13

"Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else." -- Eagleson's Law

"Looking at code you wrote more than two weeks ago is like looking at code you are seeing for the first time." -- Dan Hurvitz

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dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)
posted by [personal profile] dewline at 02:11pm on 2020-02-13
Not being a programmer, I won't argue with any of this.
syntonic_comma: MicroAce computer (Sinclair ZX80 clone kit) (computers)
posted by [personal profile] syntonic_comma at 05:08pm on 2020-02-13
All those comments in my code are not just to help other people.

You know you've got a problem when you're looking at someone else's code and the comments don't match what the code really does.
syntonic_comma: Aztec calendar (holidays)
posted by [personal profile] syntonic_comma at 05:13pm on 2020-02-13
I wonder why the timestamps on these replies are UT, and not local TZ like the original posting?

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