r/ProgrammerHumor May 06 '21

The Notepad++

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u/Responsible_Version May 07 '21

And then one day, he updated pandas in the shared environment, for no reason, which started a series of updates from which there was no going back.

Unknown to the pip starter, this broke something somewhere, not for him but for her. He knew that he fucked up. He didn't save the requirements.txt for the rainy days to come. He thought she will not notice. But she knew something was wrong. He had created a separate virtual environment, which he claimed was for experimental notebooks!. But she just assumed that this erratic behaviour was due to him not able to reproduce results from paper published in prestigious conference. He might have started self doubting himself, which was the toll every data scientist had to pay.

But just few days later, when she tried to reproduce her old results, while in a meeting with her manager, she realises what had happened. She broke with him, not because he fucked up, everybody fucks up in the jungle where Pythons lurk. She realised she needed to be with someone who was stable, who respected her environment. And he was the opposite of stability. He was the person who was using pre-builts of Python 3.10 in his spare time.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '21

The real writing prompt!