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Obsolete code Memes

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Code Hoarding

Javascript Programming Git Debugging

11 months ago 335.6K views 0 shares

Code Hoarding

Ah, the digital equivalent of sweeping dust under the rug. Nothing says "job security" like maintaining a codebase where 60% is commented-out functions nobody dares to touch. The irony of having a function called getKeywords while half the actual keywords function is commented out is just *chef's kiss*. Future archaeologists will study these code fossils and wonder if we were preserving ancient artifacts or just too scared to hit the delete key.

Don't Get My Hopes Up

Programming Debugging Webdev Backend Frontend

1 year ago 377.3K views 0 shares

Don't Get My Hopes Up

That brief moment of joy when you find the perfect function in some obscure documentation, only to have your soul crushed in three consecutive stages of despair. First, it's deprecated. Then you discover the docs you're reading are from 2015. And finally, the killing blow - the new API has completely removed that functionality because some architect decided "nobody needs that anymore." Time to cobble together a 47-line workaround that'll haunt your code reviews for years!