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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 15:08:54 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Job Interviewer: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?"

   Me: "Still trying to figure out why this variable is named 'fluffy' in this legacy code."

   • Areskill (jean_dupont@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 15:16:40 JST Areskill

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     @nixCraft fluf my life!

   • James 🌈💜 (shaknais@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 16:35:32 JST James 🌈💜

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     @nixCraft

     Particular old codebase I'm working with has variable aa through ax.
     I'd shoot the original maintainer... Except it was me pa.

   • Earsmeardius (earsmeardius@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 17:13:32 JST Earsmeardius

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     @nixCraft Hey, when I was in Pascal class I named all my programs after different kinds of pasta.

   • Valdis Krebs (valdis@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 17:39:24 JST Valdis Krebs

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     @nixCraft my first IT job was like that … working storage was the programmer’s family tree!!!

   • tatko (tatko@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 17:57:15 JST tatko

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     @nixCraft

     Spooge drivers not found, verify directx installed

   • pa27 (pa27@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 19:19:52 JST pa27

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     @nixCraft I used to work with a guy from Rockwell. All his vars and labels were ex girlfriend names, or ones he wished were girlfriends. Having said that, I've seen "properly" named and documented code that's much harder to read...