• itslilith
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      1 year ago

      MM-DD-YY is the worst abomination I’ve seen yet

      12-04-08

      good luck figuring out what that is

      • bamboo
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        1 year ago

        Wow it’s my exact birthday. Good luck figuring out my age.

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        Had a coworker who used MMDDYY with no dashes. Unless you knew it was very hard to figure out, since it could also just be a number that happened to be 6 digits, too. At least YYYY-MM-DD looks like a date generally.

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      1 year ago

      “I can reuse this old function if I just monkey-patch this other class to work with it, no one will have any issues understanding what’s going on”

      Edit: Thought this was the programmerhumor community. For context: A monkey-patch is when you write code that changes the behaviour of some completely different code when it is running, thus making its inner workings completely incomprehensible to the poor programmer using or reading your code.