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Despite the obvious levity, this is actually serious. It was made by why the lucky stiff, a pretty prominent member of Ruby community, back in the day. This, however, was part of his mysterious burnout manifesto, for lack of better term. He really really bloody needed a break.

"programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more."

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[–] Toes@ani.social 41 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Where does maintaining a 25MB perl script fall into.

[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

My condolences

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 13 points 5 months ago

I think that's larger than my kernel binary.

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago

into depression i guess