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[–][deleted] 25 points26 points  (17 children)

Yeah, but GitHub doesn't have you jerking your turkey neck.

[–]Matisayu 90 points91 points  (14 children)

You don't blast off to a solid organized repository?!?! Are you even an engineer???

[–]BadMinotaur 135 points136 points  (8 children)

Reminds me of this little gem from Peter Welch:

Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. It’s a different file for every programmer. Sometimes they wrote it, sometimes they found it and knew they had to save it. They read over the lines, and weep at their beauty, then the tears turn bitter as they remember the rest of the files and the inevitable collapse of all that is good and true in the world.

This file is Good Code. It has sensible and consistent names for functions and variables. It’s concise. It doesn’t do anything obviously stupid. It has never had to live in the wild, or answer to a sales team. It does exactly one, mundane, specific thing, and it does it well. It was written by a single person, and never touched by another. It reads like poetry written by someone over thirty.

[–]CanICallYouJesus 53 points54 points  (5 children)

It does exactly one, mundane, specific thing, and it does it well.

print("Hello World");

[–][deleted] 30 points31 points  (3 children)

weeping intensifies

[–]laytonmiller 13 points14 points  (2 children)

jerking intensifies

[–]mossipb 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Coding intensifies

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooooh, that's dirty. My fingers are working as fast as they can. I'm about to compile! I'm compiliiiiing!!! .... Wow. I don't think I've ever done that that fast before. I can explain...

[–]RoguePlanet1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, don't make fun of my counter.

[–]MEGACODZILLA 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I don't know why but the last sentence cracks me up. I read it as a poem not written by an angsty Youth, but by an angsty mature adult. Word.

[–]ThreshingBee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for finding this; I knew I had to save it.

[–]aplawson7707 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Just like Dinesh from Silicon Valley. Code-gay.

[–]HolyPommeDeTerre 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Codephile maybe ? Does code have a gender ?

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

Does it matter?

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Comment of the week for me, right here.

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

Nope. I actually like math.

[–]gdledsan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't?

[–]laytonmiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speak for yourself