• Omega_Jimes@lemmy.caEnglish
    46·
    2 months ago

    My professor once asked me about a comment that said "// This is awful and you should feel awful, change this before handing it in. " I had no excuse, I just told him time makes fools of us all.

    • voracitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      2 months ago

      I had no excuse, I just told him time makes fools of us all.

      For that quip, they should’ve just christened you a developer and handed over your diploma right there.

    • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      Should always slap a TODO on the front. IDEs like Jetbrain will catch those for you, so you can willfully ignore them next time(s).

    • four@lemmy.zipEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      This is the difference between academia and actual experience. Senior engineer wouldn’t bat an eye for such comment

      • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.caEnglish
        16·
        2 months ago

        That’s basically what I was told. It worked, I explained the algorithm I was having trouble with, and that I just ran out of time. He didn’t deduct any marks or anything, he just said I should make an effort to make comments less self-deprecating.

        • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          2 months ago

          I should make an effort to make comments less self-deprecating.

          Weird, that’s what my therapist keeps telling me too. j/k, I can’t afford it or be bothered to go

  • Mastema@infosec.pubEnglish
    43·
    2 months ago

    There is nothing honorable here. This code is best avoided. We are not proud of what we have done.

  • Anticorp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    2 months ago

    I once left a comment that said

    // To whomever inherits this project, I’m sorry about the following code. They made me do it.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    Over at invisible-island.net:

    Part of why xterm’s internals are so horrifying is that it was originally intended that a single process be able to drive multiple VS100 displays. Don’t hold this against Mark; it isn’t his fault.

    And startx:

    # This is just a sample implementation of a slightly less primitive interface than xinit.
# …
# Site administrators are STRONGLY urged to write nicer versions.
    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Found deep in the Linux networking code years ago: // this code is too ugly to live, but I don’t have time right now