r/ProgrammerHumor • u/dollymeshvibes • 9d ago

Meme forFutureReference

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u/empT3 8d ago

I can tell you, I've been a software developer for over a decade and I've moved around as much as any other developer. 

Why the fuck would I want to keep the source code of the company I'm leaving? I've worked professionally on open source projects whose source I could clone off of GitHub right now from my phone. I haven't looked at that code since I left and I'm not even a little bit curious.

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u/joahw 7d ago

I think it must be like a hoarder thing? "I might need this someday"

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u/shauntmw2 5d ago

I still hoard my shitty php app I created during my uni days alongside the xampp dev env for it.

They're about 20 years old now.

They're useless to me now. But I still keep them. I don't know why.

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u/TerranPower 3d ago

Literally the definition of sentimental value. Those projects were your first few entries into software engineering and the skills they demanded of you is what you’re proud of acquiring. I still carry around my projects from my OS class because they taught me so much about what I love to program.

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u/mrMeterParker 7d ago

Personally I like to keep code I created in some form for me to reference back to at some point. Even though I hardly ever go back to reference anything when coding

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u/sexytokeburgerz 6d ago

Helper functions.

I have my own little library of them and dont always get them all.

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u/ste2425 7d ago

After some of the horrors I’ve witnessed and written myself I’m glad to see the back of it. 

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u/National-Canary6452 5d ago

I've had instances of cool patterns I had learnt and worked on where I decided fk it, I just wanna reference this for future if applicable. But not the IP, just the approaches. Lots of really cool TS tricks I've hauled about with me. AI makes that mostly irrelevant now but hey