TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code

Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by hinkley on Thursday October 12, 2017 @06:36PM (#15461866)

One of the things it took me a while to intellectualize is that 'you' a year ago is a very different person from 'you' today.

Given enough time, maintaining a much larger body of code than a single person can reasonably handle, you're going to have disagreements with yourself without even realizing it.

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Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by eric_h on Thursday October 12, 2017 @06:41PM (#15461907)

Absolutely. When I stumble upon some code in my full time codebase that I find distasteful, my first thought is "what idiot did this". git blame and sure enough, it's me.

Past me has been and always will be an idiot as far as present me is concerned (with some infrequent exceptions).

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Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by moomin on Thursday October 12, 2017 @06:53PM (#15461981)

If you like comic books where the hero has to travel in time to fight himself, you'll love programming.

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Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by pferde on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:19AM (#15463609)

I want this on a t-shirt.

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Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by Nition on Thursday October 12, 2017 @07:01PM (#15462031)

I always think when this happens, "At least I must be improving."

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