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The Six Stages of Code Grief (suppo.fi)
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[–] 40 points 11 months ago (3 children)

longest file I have ever maintained contained 50,000 lines of code.

fifty THOUSAND.

forgive me for not weeping for 2000 lines.

my advice, don't fucking touch it. pull out as much functionality out of it into other things over time.

there will come a day when you can throw it away. maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow... but some day.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, been there. The codebase I worked on also had a single method with 10k lines.

    The database IDs were strings including the hostname of the machine that wrote to the DB. Since it was a centralized server, all IDs had the same hostname. The ID also included date and time accurate to the millisecond, and the table name itself.

    Me: Mom, can we have UUIDs? Mom: We have UUIDs at home UUIDs at home: that shit

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago*

    I was working on a project that had 100 000 line oracle database PL/SQL procedure that ordered a work order from subcontractor. It was just one single function. That was called by classic asp + visual basic COM component.

    Oh Lord, I get Vietnam flashbacks about it.

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