9mo ago

Have you ever devoted a significant amount of time to something only to later feel it was pointless?

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As a software developer, more frequently than I'd like. Pouring a couple weeks into an epic only to see the entire thing scrapped... At least I got paid.
Happens with personal projects too sometimes, I'll start refactoring and decide at the end of the weekend I really don't want to waste me next weekend on it and it'll go to the archives lol.
But even in those cases, not entirely worthless. I still learned and grew my knowledge. Same applies to similar scenarios not related to writing code.
- There will come a day when all the code we've ever written will be dead.
  I know the majority of mine is.
  
  "A man dies two deaths. The first, when he draws his last breath. The second, when the last bit of shitty band-aid code he wrote is overwritten."
  
  I'll have you know that these are safety-certified band-aids
  
  Guess as an infrastructure/factory guy I will be around for a while.
  
  Hah! Only if you've never written a "temporary" dirty hack -- that code will live forever.
  
  Until the product is killed off.
- Had a thing about this at work this week. Got a small project in that is loaded up with garbage requirements, client is never coming back to us after this, and the budget is marginal.
  What's the point? We aren't getting new knowledge, we aren't establishing a relationship with a new client, we aren't even making money. Sales fucked up, these things happen, move on. It isn't even a challenging assignment so the entire victory is hollow. Boss-man didn't like my brilliant idea to just ghost the client.

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