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Even my own code sometimes. (thelemmy.club)
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[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 234 points 2 days ago

god, this code is awful. Who wrote this?

git blame

Oh

[-] hdsrob@lemmy.world 110 points 2 days ago

Been writing the same software for 20+ years now, don't even need git blame to figure out what asshole wrote this shit.

[-] SystemDisc@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago

Why is it always me? Haha

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Yup there are certain patterns that I can just tell

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago

I love that they called it "blame" lol. They knew what it would be used for.

[-] affenlehrer@feddit.org 22 points 2 days ago

Not sure if was there from the beginning but it was originally developed by Linus Torvalds and he can be quite harsh to the Linux contributors.

[-] myotheraccount@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Subversion tried to call it "annotate", but that didn't stick ;)

[-] ati@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Isn't it alias for git praise?

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago

That exact chain of events happened to me at my last job and I audibly laughed realising it was my own code. To my own credit though, it was a file I had written four years prior which at that point was more than half my whole career in the past

[-] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

If you aren’t ashamed of your work a year ago, you’re stagnating!

[-] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 20 points 2 days ago

Sometimes you don't even recognize your own trash, 6 weeks later.

[-] dan@upvote.au 13 points 2 days ago

These days I see so much AI slop that my reaction when I see code I hand-wrote myself is "hey, that's pretty good".

My team's code is great, but we use a lot of shared code written by other teams, with varying levels of quality.

[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Past me was a moron sometimes.

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Still am. But I used to too

[-] Hettyc_Tracyn@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago

I mean, admitting you have a problem is the first step to a solution…

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Oh, man. Can you tell what the second step is? I'd really like to learn that.

[-] Hettyc_Tracyn@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

Working to fix it… (which of course varies wildly based on the problem!)

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not if the author was your boss.

[-] JATothrim_v2@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have lately jokingly guessed when I see the particular style and confusion: it's you isn't it? And so far I have been right. The particular author's magic has expired, and I see the same fault replicated everywhere he has been.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

One of my coworkers is fond of using ternary expressions instead of "if" blocks. Even ones without an "else". So I see things like:

condition ? someVar = "blah" : null;

or

condition ? doSomething() : null

Which should both just use "if" statements. Or my favorite:

condition ? someVar = "foo" : someVar = "bar"

which should really be

someVar = condition ? "foo" : "bar"

[-] testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

UUUuuuuuh, I am not a programmer (you're going to say "thank god"), but...

I sometimes even chain them. You can put yet another ternary operator in the else and keep going. You know, else-if.
So anyway, I can get ternary operators spanning 2 - 3 lines.
Oh, I also often have issues thinking of proper loops, so you'd see a few terribly used goto statements.

Although I do remove ones that are obvious brain fart.
For example, quite obvious

void example(bool true_or_false){
    if(true_or_false){
        //code if true
    }
    else{
        //code if false
    }
    //other code
}

Well, I've already had my brain goof up even that once or twice. "How the fuck", you're asking?

void example(bool true_or_false){
    if(true_or_false){
        goto if_true;
    }
    //code if false
    goto end_false_if;
if_true:
    //code if true
end_false_if:
    //other code
}

The brain-fart if-else.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Dear lord lmao

[-] lukstru@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

You need another goto end right before the end_false_if:, otherwise the false code will always run

[-] testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I tested it, it works as it is.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdbool.h>

void main(){
        bool true_or_false = true;
        if(true_or_false){
                goto if_true;
        }
        printf("This code runs only if false.\n");
        goto end_false_if;
if_true:
        printf("This code runs only if true.\n");
end_false_if:
        printf("This code always runs.\n");
}

If true, it jumps to if_true, then runs other code. If false, the if gets skipped, if false code gets run, then it skips over if true code.

[-] lukstru@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

I totally did the thing where I commented without reading properly before. Sorry!

[-] dbx12@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

The last thing, that would be a "request changes" for me.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I haven't seen him do it lately in any code I've reviewed but I do change it whenever I see it if I'm doing work nearby lol

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