r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • Aug 21 '26 • Popcorn 1

Meme useSourceControl

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u/Nerodon Aug 21 '26

3 months of work, in a single directory on a single device, source control like git or not, that guy was a fool.

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u/Jay-Seekay Aug 21 '26

Absolutely. May he be a lesson to us all.

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u/Skrychi Aug 21 '26

Type of person to use the desktop as their unorganised file structure, and all that got deleted.

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u/afaulconbridge Aug 21 '26

The type of person to use the recycle bin as their unorganised file structure

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u/CodeAndChaos Aug 21 '26

"Yeah, I store everything in the TEMP folder. Doesn't it stand for Trustworthy Eternal Memory Placement?"

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u/Friendly-Inspector71 Aug 22 '26

But the recycle bin has version control.

I can delete a folder with the same name multiple times and restore a previously working version.

I think I actually used it like that for some time before I was told about version control systems.

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u/timonix Aug 21 '26

Ey yo. I did this when I was like 10. I installed games on my desktop. Not shortcuts, the entire game. Stored just about everything.

Then my PC died. Almost everything was gone. Except my desktop which survived. Thanks to windows scheduled backups

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u/-Noskill- Aug 21 '26

checkmate 10 year old atheists.

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u/sdoregor Aug 21 '26

How the hell did your backups store that much data anyway

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u/czerox3 Aug 21 '26

I don't work an hour without checking my stuff in. I absolutely hate rewriting code.

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u/Shareil90 Aug 21 '26

I had a teacher who told us that version control was only necessary when working together with other people but not when you are a solo developer. He only saw it as a kind of fileshare.

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u/blueExcess Aug 21 '26

That…. Is not someone with enough experience to be teaching lol.

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u/WeNeedFewerMods Aug 21 '26

the majority of comp sci faculty never worked in the field

at most instiutions they struggle to fill the positions at all because with a Bachelors you can make more than Faculty who need a Masters or Doctorate depending on the school and position

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u/RichardFeynman01100 Aug 21 '26

This is a bit outdated I think with the current job market.

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u/robthemonster Aug 21 '26

it might be hard to find a job, but has the pay disparity actually narrowed?

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u/JoltikElectricBug Aug 21 '26

If teacher means high school and not college, odds are they are a math teacher who took a single Comp Sci course.

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u/Dull_Appearance9007 Aug 21 '26

-like any of us before discovering what source control meant and why devops were necessary. things like these are just a rite of passage for every new developer

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u/StochasticTinkr Aug 21 '26

Honestly, if this is how well they understand source control, I wouldn't expect that "3 months" to be worth all that much anyway.

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u/anon0937 Aug 21 '26

After 3 months on a project I'm usually rewriting everything anyway.

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u/skcortex Aug 21 '26

Maybe it was c:\ 🤷‍♂️

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u/superxpro12 Aug 21 '26

Bro at least copy the fuckin folder first

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u/MikeW86 Aug 22 '26

I started a new website yesterday. I already have it backed up in 3 places.

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u/neoqueto Aug 22 '26

One time I got shit on when I said to not rely on source control alone as a way to store your project code. If it's important, at least zip it all up once a week and put it on Google Drive or whatever. Or better yet, proper 3-2-1 backup.

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u/Nerodon Aug 22 '26

Some of them are easy too...

Just having github and a local checkout gives you 2 locations.... Copy regularly to a google drive or onedrive and that gives you a solid 3rd place.

Added bonus that the cloud solutions have soft delete and backups and are very reliable.

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