Why I hate your code
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I can succinctly state why I hate working on projects inherited from others, where a huge code base is inherited from bad programmers (and I have yet to work on a project where I have not inherited code from bad programmers, because quite frankly, those projects stay where they are because the client is happy!!!) It's because I'm spending my time debugging shit that isn't my shit, it's someone else's. And very few things piss me off more than having to spend even a miniscule fraction of my time on this planet fixing other people's shit. [edit]And I tend to find the most stinkiest shit written by Ruby on Rails code monkeys.[/edit] Marc
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I have recently been advertising myself as a plumber. Plumbers fix systems, clogged with other people's shiit and that is what we do. If it wasn't clogged, they wouldn't be calling us.
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I have recently been advertising myself as a plumber. Plumbers fix systems, clogged with other people's shiit and that is what we do. If it wasn't clogged, they wouldn't be calling us.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld wrote:
If it wasn't clogged, they wouldn't be calling us.
Pretty sure I saw a video once where something like this happened. There may have been some funky guitar in the background... :-\
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I can succinctly state why I hate working on projects inherited from others, where a huge code base is inherited from bad programmers (and I have yet to work on a project where I have not inherited code from bad programmers, because quite frankly, those projects stay where they are because the client is happy!!!) It's because I'm spending my time debugging shit that isn't my shit, it's someone else's. And very few things piss me off more than having to spend even a miniscule fraction of my time on this planet fixing other people's shit. [edit]And I tend to find the most stinkiest shit written by Ruby on Rails code monkeys.[/edit] Marc
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Have you ever inherited code from good programmers?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Have you ever inherited code from good programmers?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
I have recently, actually. One of our senior devs left the company for greener pastures and I moved into his team to pick up his work. His code is actually quite nice, and a lot of it is way beyond stuff I have ever done before, so his intuitive naming conventions and copious comments are quite helpful.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I have recently, actually. One of our senior devs left the company for greener pastures and I moved into his team to pick up his work. His code is actually quite nice, and a lot of it is way beyond stuff I have ever done before, so his intuitive naming conventions and copious comments are quite helpful.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
Nice, I must say it's not too often I hear that.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I can succinctly state why I hate working on projects inherited from others, where a huge code base is inherited from bad programmers (and I have yet to work on a project where I have not inherited code from bad programmers, because quite frankly, those projects stay where they are because the client is happy!!!) It's because I'm spending my time debugging shit that isn't my shit, it's someone else's. And very few things piss me off more than having to spend even a miniscule fraction of my time on this planet fixing other people's shit. [edit]And I tend to find the most stinkiest shit written by Ruby on Rails code monkeys.[/edit] Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!
I knew there was a reason I liked you. Where I work no one writes garbage code. We just have different "programming styles", or so I've been told. Personally, I prefer not to cover buffalo chips with ketchup and call them fries. And it doesn't matter to me who wrote the garbage code: me (more than my fair share), you, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Whatshisname, or the Pope. Garbage code is still garbage code whether or not the application works as the user wants.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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I knew there was a reason I liked you. Where I work no one writes garbage code. We just have different "programming styles", or so I've been told. Personally, I prefer not to cover buffalo chips with ketchup and call them fries. And it doesn't matter to me who wrote the garbage code: me (more than my fair share), you, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Whatshisname, or the Pope. Garbage code is still garbage code whether or not the application works as the user wants.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
Z.C.M. wrote:
buffalo chips with ketchup and call them fries.
BWWs Buffalo Chips[^] They're actually quite a bit better than fries... :-\
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I can succinctly state why I hate working on projects inherited from others, where a huge code base is inherited from bad programmers (and I have yet to work on a project where I have not inherited code from bad programmers, because quite frankly, those projects stay where they are because the client is happy!!!) It's because I'm spending my time debugging shit that isn't my shit, it's someone else's. And very few things piss me off more than having to spend even a miniscule fraction of my time on this planet fixing other people's shit. [edit]And I tend to find the most stinkiest shit written by Ruby on Rails code monkeys.[/edit] Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld wrote:
If it wasn't clogged, they wouldn't be calling us.
Pretty sure I saw a video once where something like this happened. There may have been some funky guitar in the background... :-\
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
I do believe I saw the same video! The young lady housewife wasn't wearing much was she - the plumber must have been very embarrassed... :-O
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld wrote:
If it wasn't clogged, they wouldn't be calling us.
Pretty sure I saw a video once where something like this happened. There may have been some funky guitar in the background... :-\
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
Colin Mullikin wrote:
There may have been some funky guitar in the background.
:-D
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Marc Clifton wrote:
bad programmers
Also known as anyone other than one's self. :-\
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
RyanDev wrote:
Also known as anyone other than one's self.
Give this man a quarter. :)
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RyanDev wrote:
Also known as anyone other than one's self.
Give this man a quarter. :)
No quarter given, nor expected. :-)
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns. -
I do believe I saw the same video! The young lady housewife wasn't wearing much was she - the plumber must have been very embarrassed... :-O
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Ya but did the plumber lay some pipe?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I can succinctly state why I hate working on projects inherited from others, where a huge code base is inherited from bad programmers (and I have yet to work on a project where I have not inherited code from bad programmers, because quite frankly, those projects stay where they are because the client is happy!!!) It's because I'm spending my time debugging shit that isn't my shit, it's someone else's. And very few things piss me off more than having to spend even a miniscule fraction of my time on this planet fixing other people's shit. [edit]And I tend to find the most stinkiest shit written by Ruby on Rails code monkeys.[/edit] Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!
I like the name Critical Software Development, the implication is that if it is not critical you don't need me! I think it may still be registered to me in Oz!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I can succinctly state why I hate working on projects inherited from others, where a huge code base is inherited from bad programmers (and I have yet to work on a project where I have not inherited code from bad programmers, because quite frankly, those projects stay where they are because the client is happy!!!) It's because I'm spending my time debugging shit that isn't my shit, it's someone else's. And very few things piss me off more than having to spend even a miniscule fraction of my time on this planet fixing other people's shit. [edit]And I tend to find the most stinkiest shit written by Ruby on Rails code monkeys.[/edit] Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!
No developer ever sets out to write bad code. Every developer writes the best code they can given the time, information and skills they have at the time. With hindsight, we can all look back at even our best work and see room for improvement.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
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I can succinctly state why I hate working on projects inherited from others, where a huge code base is inherited from bad programmers (and I have yet to work on a project where I have not inherited code from bad programmers, because quite frankly, those projects stay where they are because the client is happy!!!) It's because I'm spending my time debugging shit that isn't my shit, it's someone else's. And very few things piss me off more than having to spend even a miniscule fraction of my time on this planet fixing other people's shit. [edit]And I tend to find the most stinkiest shit written by Ruby on Rails code monkeys.[/edit] Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!
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I can succinctly state why I hate working on projects inherited from others, where a huge code base is inherited from bad programmers (and I have yet to work on a project where I have not inherited code from bad programmers, because quite frankly, those projects stay where they are because the client is happy!!!) It's because I'm spending my time debugging shit that isn't my shit, it's someone else's. And very few things piss me off more than having to spend even a miniscule fraction of my time on this planet fixing other people's shit. [edit]And I tend to find the most stinkiest shit written by Ruby on Rails code monkeys.[/edit] Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!
We have inherited some not so good projects as well that we have to maintain. The one was written by a slightly dyslexic self-taught coder. The other by someone relatively fresh out of university. It has some interesting things like all events being handled in the apps main window instead of the dialog being shown. I hate working on that project, but at least you know where to look for the code. Code reviews would have helped sort out this mess and would have helped the dev learn how to do things better.
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No developer ever sets out to write bad code. Every developer writes the best code they can given the time, information and skills they have at the time. With hindsight, we can all look back at even our best work and see room for improvement.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
When I look at what I'm currently working on, there must have been a contest over many years to write the worst and most unmaintainable code.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns. -
Ya but did the plumber lay some pipe?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
Roto. Rooter.
Software Zen:
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I have recently, actually. One of our senior devs left the company for greener pastures and I moved into his team to pick up his work. His code is actually quite nice, and a lot of it is way beyond stuff I have ever done before, so his intuitive naming conventions and copious comments are quite helpful.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
You are dead, and you've gone to heaven. Lucky you.
Software Zen:
delete this;
