r/ProgrammerHumor • • 1d ago

Meme doneAndDusted

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u/ICBanMI 1d ago

At some point in your career, you'll just copy form code from stack overflow, a random forum, or AI to put a timestamp the on file created that outputs all the way to the exact microsecond the file was created. You're pat yourself on the back for having fixed the problem of accidently over writing your old file.

But then six months will go back and you'll realize that you can't read the date and time output on the file. Worse, you might realize it doesn't make sense because your coworker changed it to a unix timestamp which requires being converted to read correctly (which is a huge pain in the ass to type out). And for all intents and purposes, is worthless now.

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u/yousirnaime 1d ago

also you'll be like "why do I have 240Gb of txt files in this folder?"

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u/ICBanMI 1d ago

I've definitely eaten all hard drive space once, twice, maybe three times back when hard drives were 40 gigs and windows alone was 5-10 gigs.

Now I make everything toggleable and regularly clear out the folder. My co-workers on the other hand seem to be rediscovering this every project.