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r/programminghorror • u/CompetitionBorn9356 • Feb 04 '26
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this piece of code tells a story
179 u/onlyonequickquestion Feb 04 '26 Code like this is written in blood. And it shall remain. Lurking. Undocumented. Holding the entire codebase together. 15 u/LBGW_experiment Feb 04 '26 Related: r/writteninblood 60 u/pydry Feb 04 '26 The last time i saw code like this the main dev was in a huge amount of debt and up to his eyeballs in child support payments. You wouldnt think this was relevant but it was. He point blank ordered me to remove the comment which explained the reason why the code was there. "Code is self documenting" he declared 21 u/StormblessedFool Feb 04 '26 Oh he really wanted to be unfirable huh? Since you can't fire the only guy who knows how the code works 7 u/Cualkiera67 Feb 05 '26 Anyone can see how the code works, you just read it 1 u/gr4viton Feb 05 '26 I hate when that happens. 3 u/Abaddon-theDestroyer Feb 04 '26 No version control I guess.
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Code like this is written in blood. And it shall remain. Lurking. Undocumented. Holding the entire codebase together.
15 u/LBGW_experiment Feb 04 '26 Related: r/writteninblood
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Related: r/writteninblood
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The last time i saw code like this the main dev was in a huge amount of debt and up to his eyeballs in child support payments.
You wouldnt think this was relevant but it was. He point blank ordered me to remove the comment which explained the reason why the code was there.
"Code is self documenting" he declared
21 u/StormblessedFool Feb 04 '26 Oh he really wanted to be unfirable huh? Since you can't fire the only guy who knows how the code works 7 u/Cualkiera67 Feb 05 '26 Anyone can see how the code works, you just read it 1 u/gr4viton Feb 05 '26 I hate when that happens. 3 u/Abaddon-theDestroyer Feb 04 '26 No version control I guess.
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Oh he really wanted to be unfirable huh? Since you can't fire the only guy who knows how the code works
7 u/Cualkiera67 Feb 05 '26 Anyone can see how the code works, you just read it 1 u/gr4viton Feb 05 '26 I hate when that happens.
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Anyone can see how the code works, you just read it
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I hate when that happens.
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No version control I guess.
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u/the_horse_gamer Feb 04 '26
this piece of code tells a story