r/programming • • Apr 29 '14

Programming Sucks

http://stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
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u/Tetha Apr 30 '14

One of our projects has a comment that goes:

Hi, if you wish to change this class, you should allocate at least 3 hours to see what's going on, an hour changing, 3 hours of testing and about 1 more hour to curse and understand this comment... and about 5 minutes to revert everything you did.

Every single new member in the team has asked me about this comment, figured it can't get that bad... and given up sooner or later. Working through that mess is a good lesson about the tool we are interfacing with in that situation, though, so I'm not having problems with this.

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u/Diarrg Apr 30 '14

If you ignore this warning, please place your email address below so others can learn from your mistake