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[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My comments are just the code that didn't work but I don't want to delete yet because I might make it work except I never will be cause I already rewrote it so it does.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry, I just get anxious that I'm suddenly gonna need that code

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My old senior used to do this before he got laid off and now I’m charge of code that’s littered with old commented out code and no way to know why it was commented out.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Don't delete this, might need it later - JP"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

When versioning and feature flags are too hard: just use git and hope for the best