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> in 2017, I got a call to fix something I'd written in ... 2003/2004 We are all time travelers. We are kind to past selves and slightly disrespectful to fut
by m463 2y ago
> in 2017, I got a call to fix something I'd written in ... 2003/2004
We are all time travelers. We are kind to past selves and slightly disrespectful to future self.
Past self - so young, naive but productive! He did so much. At the time it took too long, but looking back, what mountains were climbed! It took me two days to figure out the code, but in the end it was pretty clever. Present self must have bad memory if he forgot it all
Future self - he will right all wrongs. He is older and wiser. He has infinite time. Time to refactor, to replace the XXXs and TBDs with intelligent code. to implement to good ideas and re-implement the mediocre ones.
with better comments, maybe all of them will become one.