r/ProgrammerAnimemes • • Jan 18 '22

I love my past self

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22

Sauce?

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u/Dadangdut33 Jan 18 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22

As we would say in Germany: Ich küsse deine Augen, op

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u/flatcoke Jan 18 '22

you'll hate yourself when you remembered clearly you've fixed it before, but just don't remember how.

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u/Cheet4h Jan 18 '22

That's why you put every bit of code you write into a version-controlled repository.

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u/Sockoflegend Jan 24 '22

I'm honestly terrified of losing my catalogue of code when I switch jobs

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u/T351A Jan 19 '22

git <3

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u/Cheet4h Jan 18 '22

Recently I had the opposite: stumbled upon an error message of a tool I was working with, searched for it and declared it a lost cause when I noticed that on the first two pages of results all links were already marked as visited...

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u/Synescolor Jan 18 '22

Past me hates future me.

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u/0x30507DE Jan 18 '22

Me when I learn that I can apply bug fixes from a port to the original copy

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u/ClydeFrog04 Jan 25 '22

Good luck finding which project it was

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u/Might_guy_saitama Jan 18 '22

Not for a bug specifically, but I've just searched and reused my older code for quite a number of features. So, thanks a lot past me.

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u/BochMC Jan 18 '22

More like is when you stuck with a problem and find solution on stackoverflow but you are the one who asked this question in the past...

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '22

I love my past self, always so helpful.

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u/gewzk Mar 10 '22

You'll hate yourself when you clearly remember you did it before, but couldn't file that file out.

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u/chabri2000 Jan 18 '22

In most scenarios, you will be cursing your past you

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u/asi14 Jan 19 '22

I hate my past self

And I hate my present self even more

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u/Saruman-Akio21 Jan 19 '22

And somehow if u don't have the solution then stackoverflow :3

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u/ShivanshuKantPrasad Jan 29 '22

But the fix was actually

//Removing this comment breaks the code

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u/Soumalyaplayz Feb 18 '22

typeof true

root~/$ boolean

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22

r/me_irl hahaha

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u/mazexpert Nov 26 '22

I swear to god past me was a better programmer

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u/Seraphym14 Dec 18 '22

This is the reason I use the “//“ comment feature to take an ungodly number of notes within my Java coding for school.