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[–] SpaceNoodle 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There will come a day when all the code we've ever written will be dead.

I know the majority of mine is.

[–] Tujio 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"A man dies two deaths. The first, when he draws his last breath. The second, when the last bit of shitty band-aid code he wrote is overwritten."

[–] SpaceNoodle 4 points 6 months ago

I'll have you know that these are safety-certified band-aids

[–] afraid_of_zombies 2 points 6 months ago

Guess as an infrastructure/factory guy I will be around for a while.

[–] grue 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hah! Only if you've never written a "temporary" dirty hack -- that code will live forever.

[–] SpaceNoodle 1 points 6 months ago

Until the product is killed off.