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by vundercind 807 days ago
It’s goddamn rare to work on something useful.

I’m not sure more than 50% of the code I’ve written in about 20 years of this was ever actually used by someone who wasn’t, like, working on the project.

Much of the rest shouldn’t have been written. Total waste, usually easy to see.

A lot more that’s basically just rearranging shit for little reason.

Yeah… very little was useful.

At some point you just have to stop giving a shit. You’ll pay me how much to dig a hole then fill it back up over and over?! Sure thing, how deep do you want it?