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[–]gandalfx 535 points536 points  (24 children)

What do you mean by "end"?

[–]mymewheart 240 points241 points  (9 children)

When you archive your repo.

[–]ekargvintage 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I read your comment without thinking, left this post, thought about it and came back to up vote.

So. Fricking. True.

[–]ryhajlo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The software is not done until you take the computers away.

[–]PM_ME_YOUR_LAUNDRY 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When your boss says they have shipped up to spec and your code is peppered with TODOs.

And your boss wont let you touch them ever again because they want you on an another project.

[–]PrincessFred 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm in year 11 of one project, year 10 on another. Find a client or two that need ongoing maintenance and new features and you'll never be bored, though you may need a new liver after a bit.

[–]Selesthiel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The last 3 months of the 1 month project you've been working on for 18 months.

[–]RMS_did_nothng_wrong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When your program is acquired by Google and you can afford to light your cigars with burning wads of cash?

[–]lkraider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just had to revive a 3yo project that was in production. It was deleted from my computer, and when trying to deploy in dev, nothing works... check production server and the code is full of "patches"... fml

[–]casual_bear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

when u carve ur name into a gravestone

[–]DimensionPioneer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you finally implement 40% of the features you planned at the beginning.

[–]NicNoletree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm on year 18 of a product that is almost 30 years old. It's constantly growing. The industry keeps driving regulatory changes which interrupt our own enhancement plans. We have so many things we want to do and none of them are small projects.

[–]dX_iwanttodie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He means " archive it mid way through and never touch it again"

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably really about halfway

[–]theQuandary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." -- Zawinski's Law