Despite the obvious levity, this is actually serious. It was made by why the lucky stiff, a pretty prominent member of Ruby community, back in the day. This, however, was part of his mysterious burnout manifesto, for lack of better term. He really really bloody needed a break.
“programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more.”
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50,000? thems rookie numbers.
I miss why… he was what everyone really needed, and the industry destroyed him. I haven’t seen anyone like him since.
Where does “Suddenly realizing why they call it DLL hell” fall on the scale?
Between “One too many nulls” and “The tests are larger . . .” in the beginning, then moving up one notch for each day you’ve been wrestling with it.
Documentation should be larger than code.
Tests as well.
Where does maintaining a 25MB perl script fall into.
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the tests are now larger than the thing itself
The purpose of the code is to make the tests pass.
The purpose of code is to solve a problem but don’t tell that to the newbies or they reduce the PHP codebase you spend full time managing to 10% that in Rust and take your job.
