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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution that works

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In my first month at my current employer, I added some temporary code with a TODO to fix it properly. That was 11 years ago in 2013, and the same TODO is still there today, and these days it'd be significantly harder to do it. ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] Beanie 4 points 8 months ago

If it gets comitted to master, TODO means never do.