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Natasha Jay :mastodon: πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

Developer accused of unreadable code refuses to comment

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Mark Crocker

@econads @Natasha_Jay agreed. The grandparent post definitely needs a tag πŸ˜‹

GhostOnTheHalfShell

@Natasha_Jay

I knew a guy who declared his code write only. This was true.

phi1997

@Natasha_Jay Firewall accused of dropping all packets denies everything

hotkey (ZoΓ©)

@Natasha_Jay Though there's a lot of unreadable code that would remain unreadable even with all the comments in the world :meow_dizzy:

( Yes, I got the joke too :meow_eyespin: )

Jeanette

@Natasha_Jay Their comment would probably be unreadable anyway.

greeeen :nb_verified::verifiedbi::verifiedlesbian:

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt it took me 6 tries to read this. i need to sleep now. it was a long day.

Eric G.

@Natasha_Jay All future comments will be issued through their contracted PR firm.

Osma Suominen

@ericg @Natasha_Jay But the code in the PR doesn't contain any comments either.

Eric G.

@osma @Natasha_Jay So the PR firm had no comment at this time. Likely that's their job. πŸ˜‰

Gon Arrivi

@Natasha_Jay I have interacted with this toot in all ways possible at it's still not enough πŸ™Œ

Fubaroque

@Natasha_Jay If the code is unreadable adding comments is not going to help. ;-)

Reiddragon :ablobcatattention:
@Natasha_Jay want a comment? here
*opens vim*
*types*
ggI/*<esc>GA*/<esc>:wq

(this will comment the entire file)
27329ed9-2211-a1ba-9371-e2641bf0dcb6
@Natasha_Jay We haven't been able to get in contact with programmer writing unreachable code
Bruno Bord

@Natasha_Jay sometimes it's almost unreadable, and you wish it was totally unreadable, because there's not enough mind bleach to erase from your memory.

Natasha Jay :mastodon: πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

@brunobord

Totally!

I remember a developer who'd built something in SQL in a single statement with six-seven levels of nesting and inner joins and god knows (I could hardly work it out and I was an ex-dev and had written that functional spec. It worked sure, but was insane, warped, and unmaintainable)

I pointed it out to the Dev Team Manager who I knew very well and it was rewritten later on ...

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