• PhilipMottershead@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Currently working on projects for a client which is adding what should be a minor feature but it’s in a horribly written codebase so there’s been lots of “fix this latter” and “Add this back when working”.

  • jerd@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Or all the random comments like

    #Don’t change the value of this var because it breaks everything for some unknown reason

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Hard disagree, I savor removing the scaffolding after figuring out a hard issue.

    Most of the time, it’s just a matter of discarding the local git changes anyway.

  • gkd@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    When you add a few hundred likes of code thinking you have THE solution to your issue, just to realize 90% of the way through it is totally not going to work.