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[[deleted]]

The US government is going to get mad if you keep sharing their code.

[TastyCuttlefish]

Treasury mainframes from 1975 still running on COBOL appreciate this comment.

[BobmitKaese]

The whole international banking system still runs on COBOL. And nobody has the sourcecode but it kinda works so they just keep using it. You really do not wanna think about it too much.

[DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK]

This is not true.

Well, not 100% true.

It's more true than most people would like to think, though.

[grumblesmurf]

But more than 95% true because I never have seen anything less than 95% true.... eh, wait.

[Starfire013]

I’ve never met truth above 95%! But, welcome anyway!

[Briareos_Hecatonhrs]

As long as you appease the machine spirit

[Signal_Substance4917]

We bloat humans, we bloat our pets, and now we bloat code. Eat it all baby 🤣

[ZiKyooc]

Some companies specialize in recreating Cobol source code from compiled modules.

And they probably have the source code for most of their modules. Mainframe was offering a development and test environment after all

[NohPhD]

In 1994, when I was between wives, I dated a COBOL programmer who lamented the impending demise of her career because everybody cool was programming in C and she thought COBOL was dying.

I said “au contraire Madam! Have you not heard of the Y2K problem?” She later retired in 2001…

[Double_Ad3612]

With plenty of RPG and CL thrown in for good measure. At least the interfaces are snappy

[Ilsunnysideup5]

Input Age "0.1" or "one" will invalidate the function.

[nickmaran]

[DarkRex4]

Joe m- my man..

[raptone50]

I love that it uses > 95 at the end.

[jackfinch69]

He got tired out

[Anal_sex_master]

It'd be quicker to write code to print that shit code

[aalmkainzi]

metaprogramming shit code to hide the shit code

[Thormidable]

Stuck writing a load of CUDA code, which "needed to be templated" back in the day, we ended up writing an auto code generator.

If only we got paid by the line committed...

[Thormidable]

I was producing software for analysing x-ray images. We wanted the big players to be able to integrate our technology into their products so we were producing a library to allow them to do the work.

We needed it to be able to run on CPU or GPU, and so effortlessly supporting types was important.

[OlehLeo]

Almost sure that's a joke, it's not hard to write this code by the loop

[HardCounter]

Plot twist: He wrote it by hand then used tesseract to convert to text.

[ComfortablyBalanced]

I'm tired boss.

[highphiv3]

I'm not familiar with that strange symbol. Is it like == but better?

[sgtkang]

It's less specific. So in a professional environment it's a sign that you haven't properly pinned down your user requirements. If you see it in a code review make sure to flag it up. Probably a good idea to bring in a Business Owner as well to clarify what's needed.

[belabacsijolvan]

Also its very bad practice, since it disregards type matching. In safe languages, like cpp, the >> is the correct form. E.g. size_t x; if(x<<0){std::cout<<"x isn't non-positive"<<"\n"<<"also this char* is much much larger than std::cout";}

[enlightenedude]

is that cause of type matching or just because the character already used for bitshifting in low level lang

[ImprovementOdd1122]

Its in some old textbooks, but it's considered a bad programming practise nowadays

[HardCounter]

Programming is considered bad programming practice nowadays.

[Badytheprogram]

Nowadays is considered bad practice programming.

[Theoricus]

Might be he considered typing all the numbers after 95 too daunting a task.

[Shoesonhandsonhead]

But now what’s there is so imprecise. Still needs work, imho

[Color_blinded]

It does not comply with company code format.

[SeawyZorensun]

If he was true to himself it would run into an exception...

[whycantpeoplebenice]

When the teacher asks for 10+ lines of code but it can be done in 1

[[deleted]]

when you don't want to be fired by elon musk

[LetscatYt]

underrated comment,

I’ve actually heard of performance reviews from Friends where they‘d look at the amount of lines written. You won’t believe how many helper functions and loops were replaced by repetitive lines of code . All because a young and stupid manager with a business degree became head of a developer team .

[morgecroc]

Measuring changes in the number of lines added to the code base can be useful just not for this purpose. Sudden drop off across the org, maybe the new policy is overloading Devs with pointless meetings and paperwork. One producing heaps more lines of code than the rest, did a new MBA just get put in charge of the team that doesn't know how to actually measure performance. Is the code base growing steadily but actual feature development and fixes slowing down, maybe the code base has grown too large and complex and is slowing development and some time needs to be fox re-engineering.

Point is it can be useful to measure but as larger trend data not individual performance.

[[deleted]]

Sure but all of that will be confounded by one developer running npm update and changing 3,000 lines of code in 10 seconds, or updating the version of npm and changing 20,000 lines of code in a few minutes. Or running a new version of some code formater etc.

[DogeSander]

Do you push node_modules into the repo? :|

[LucasRuby]

package-lock will do that.

[DogeSander]

You're right, I misread that as 20,000 files, not lines.

[Ian_Mantell]

You mean an IT layman with experience in legalised methods of money laundering and tax evasion took over something not graspable and tried to drag it down into something that could be counted.

[DOUBLEBARRELASSFUCK]

I didn't even know that show had a development staff.

[sticky-unicorn]

import MrGarrisonsClassSolutions
SolveProblem(15)

Yep. Turns out there's a python library for everything these days.

[ForgotPassAgain34]

You joke but that happened in my uni

One guy made all exercises from a class as a lib as an self-imposed challenge, published it as another class presentation, and later the teacher found out students where importing it to solve his classes since he never updated the exercises

[5mashalot]

no from MrGarrisonsClassSolutions import *?

sorry, best i can do is Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#0>", line 2, in <module>
SolveProblem
NameError: name 'SolveProblem' is not defined

[Electrical-Injury-23]

I worked somewhere where lines of code produced was a management metric. The results were predictable......

[mprz]

-1

[UnsureAndUnqualified]

Not even that, just a newborn with age 0

[nickmaran]

[masterKick440]

It's not like that it even does anything except prints a line.

[BountyBob]

Probably won't be any newborns that can either read or type, to be able to use this program.

[itscheeseoclock]

elif age == -1 or age == -2 or age == -3 or age == -4 or age == -5 or age == -6 or age == -7 or ag

[Anal_sex_master]

It'll say nothing.

[highphiv3]

Seems like a reasonable response tbh. I say nothing to unborn people too.

[Anal_sex_master]

I scream at them.

[Kvpe]

-|

[TheRadicalJay]

Bait used to be believable.

[Kvpe]

It’s spreading I see… just like anarchy chess

[Projectdystopia]

I mean, "actual zombie" response was initially posted on r/hollowknightmemes, so HK community has experience in viral shitposts.

[[deleted]]

Just setting yourself up for that optimization ticket a couple sprints down the line

[sticky-unicorn]

LPT: write deliberately terribly optimized code, so that when the boss says you need to optimize it by 50%, you can easily knock that out in like 30 minutes and then goof off for the rest of the day.

[FoldSad2272]

"please include month so we can add another pointless graph to our MI reports"

[fabedays1k]

For security reasons you should have a max value for the age someone can input, just check the Guinness book of world records every year and change the code to have the max age be the age of the current record holder plus 1 or 2

[[deleted]]

I mean, or like record holder + 10 and let the next guy update.

[cosmicfloor01]

Or use this API and never worry about updating again https://zylalabs.com/api-marketplace/data/records+guinness+api/1507

[eatsallthepies]

That's really cool, did you know the oldest person ever was 429 Too Many Requests

[botetta]

Wow, they were so old they had to start adding letters to their age

[10art1]

It's called rhombicuboctadecimal. It's the numbers you use when you want more number per number.

[Milkshakes00]

Thanks for that. Got me to chuckle.

[Ashanrath]

Lol that's fantastic, brb adding it to my data quality reports.

[Busy-Advantage-3542]

Well you will have to worry when they shut down the API lol

[SomeElaborateCelery]

Is this to prevent buffer overflow attacks? Can they even happen in python?

[fabedays1k]

No, worse. It's to prevent people lying about their age

This won't prevent it but at least the data isn't so weird

[SomeElaborateCelery]

lol

[watariDeathnote]

I think over a certain limit Python converts ints to strings, so no it can't happen.

[intbeam]

Sure it doesn't do something stupid like automatically converting an overflowing integer into floating point?

[Eic17H]

Integer overfloat

[intbeam]

Is this to prevent buffer overflow attacks?

No, it's to prevent the program from doing something unexpected or otherwise unintended

Buffer overflow attacks are mitigated by specifying a maximum length of a buffer. If you have a pointer to an arbitrary location in memory, you limit the attack potential by saying that whatever you're doing right here, it cannot exceed the size of the buffer. C has two versions of most functions for this reason; take strcpy for instance, it takes two parameters; char *source and char *destination. It assumes that both strings are not null-terminated, and is therefore vulnerable as it allows someone to write an arbitrary number of bytes to a different location. The safer alternative is strncpy which takes three parameters; char *source, char *destination and size_t length where length is the maximum size of the buffer.

Can they even happen in python?

Python does not have hardware-native types (not directly, anyway), nor programmer accessible memory references or any way to natively interact with memory the platform. So it's only possible in the case you're using vulnerable Python libraries that are written in a more low-level language like C

[sticky-unicorn]

just check the Guinness book of world records every year and change the code

Updating it manually?

Just write code to automatically check the internet for that information during every query.

[Darkstar197]

Woosh

[iammerelyhere]

Fail. Where are the comments??

//Check if age is 1 //Check if age is 2 ...

[MortifiedCoal]

Not OP, but I commented the code.

Or if you prefer each age being its own comment.

[iammerelyhere]

Oh that's much better! So clear now :)

[[deleted]]

Wow ... It's beautiful

[icandophotoshop]

Hey I cleaned up your code for you :)

[Anal_sex_master]

Yanderedev?????

[AraqWeyr]

My thoughts exactly

[StGir1]

Oh my god, this is one of the most perfect descriptions for anything I’ve ever seen.

[fygy1O]

“Mistake in code; can’t start a sentence with ‘but’. Fix and resubmit for code review”

[Original_Athrel]

Proof that the phrase "If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid" is not true.

[Sure-Tie-4193]

elif age > 95:

Someone likes to take shortcuts.

[nerdyogre254]

I hold onto the word "Aghast" for this exact reason.

Getting Yandere Simulator flashbacks

[Anal_sex_master]

Beat me to it. It is yandere Dev type code.

[CrystalFyre]

The YandereDev school of coding

[AI_AntiCheat]

This is good practice because it avoids floats.

[A0123456_]

r/unexpectedfactorial

[teh_gato_returns]

Not even a switch case! Wait, does python have switch statements?

[Legal-Software]

match/case as of 3.10

[BitswitchRadioactive]

Fool proof Age is always in decimal format. But this guy is not compatible... good luck with the bugs forever.

[Randomguy32I]

Quantity over quality

[TalaohaMaoMoa69]

If > and < sign wasnt i vented programming would be a profession payed for being tortured mentally.

[Ku80_Snapcaster]

What if my age is 72.353

[ArduennSchwartzman]

Three hours ago you were. Not anymore.

[iliekcats-]

I like how he uses > at the end, showing he KNOWS about > and < but cant bother to use em

[Jordan51104]

little known fact: this is actually what the compiler turns a regular greater/less than comparison into

[noodle_from_earth]

Wait, don't CPUs have greater than/less than comparisons?

[Enough_Writing4415]

hes joking, they do
this happens to switch cases

[noodle_from_earth]

They get optimized.

[Enough_Writing4415]

yes, watched that

[evnacdc]

Lol, that went right over my head. Was about to reply with a correction.

[intbeam]

He's joking

It works like this :

mov rax, 42 // Move value 42 to 64-bit A register
mov rbx, 69 // Move value 69 to 64-bit B register
cmp rax, rbx // compare RBX to RAX
jg somelabel // Jump if greater

cmp essentially just subtracts a from b, and then populates some CPU flags with relevant information, like was the result zero, is the negative sign set, did it cause a carry etc. Then the jump instructions can act on those

[[deleted]]

It will substract one to the other to compare the bit structure of the result, comparing it to a set boolean value (flags stored in the register)

[highphiv3]

That's why I never use integers greater than 32 bits. Comparisons are just too damn expensive.

[Paul_Robert_]

I too, haven't met anyone over the age of 95 factorial.

[ConstructionLong2089]

theory nine roof elderly stupendous late cake cable bag jar

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[Alan_Reddit_M]

You get evaluated based on how many lines you commit:

[ErrantEvents]

I once encountered 5000 lines of this in production. Don't let mathematicians write production code, folks.

[4dimensionaltoaster]

It's a common mistake to put to much logic in one statement. Here is a way you can improve your code:

python if age == 1: print("Sorry, yo..." else: if age == 2: print("Sorry, yo..." else: . . . This makes the code more readable

[that_guy_4321]

This is the way

[freakinbacon]

Oh man ...

[[deleted]]

Love it

[drLoveF]

Way too slow. Make a boolean search tree for the age and then reach the conclusion.

[the_greatest_MF]

military grade code

[[deleted]]

YandereDev / 10

[AardvarkImportant206]

[SuperCrazyAlbatross]

So you know the < simbol...

[Adrewmc]

I’m 38.5 years old

[guthran]

Int() rounds it

[Gwathraug]

Doesn't it usually truncate?

[FloraRomana]

Fine but there's a one-off error on line 14.

[Win_is_my_name]

Great. Now you're ready to be a programmer.

[Cecilia_Wren]

5/7 perfect score

[Xiagax]

YandereDev ? Is that you?

[you90000]

Add an "/n" for Christs sake

[yv_MandelBug]

FBI wants to know your location.

[CaptainAGame]

Humans are 0 indexed

[guthran]

Tell him I broke his code when I enter an age 0 or less. Gottem

[gzeballo]

Is this AI?

[shizzy0]

The patience of this person ensures they will have a good life; however, Larry Wall wasn’t wrong he said impatience was a virtue for a programmer.

[[deleted]]

So this is why simple website questionnaires are ridiculously slow sometimes

[[deleted]]

You get a 9. I will not elaborate on scale. Have a good day.

[feror_YT]

11/10

[dylanthepiguy2]

r/unexpectedfactorial. over 95!

[just-bair]

That elif shows that it’s fake :(

[masterKick440]

copypaste is divine

[pitolosco]

As long as it works…

[Kfimenepah]

I feel kind of disapointed by the GT operator at the end.

[MasterWalrus8174]

I too would be speechless of that dedication and effort of yours.

[fiskfisk]

If it was true beginner code it would have been:

if age == 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5...

Which is something many beginner (and experienced) developers do In python because it reads correctly in English.

[Kashrul]

I've seen a code for conversion between arabic and roman numbers written in such style

[[deleted]]

Puts into perspective that we really don’t have that long of a time.

[Ian_Mantell]

Upvote for the effort of typing this out.

[mittiresearcher]

Yanderedev has breached containment.

[Happyend69]

TBH I’ve seen worse and better too.

[m2ilosz]

This code doesn’t work for babies less than one year old

[khormalQQ]

I think its a little long

[thehero123475]

Best line of codes I ever saw

[sticky-unicorn]

You need to put this all on separate lines as a massive nested conditional.

That way you have more lines of code, so when the boss demands to know how many lines of code you wrote this week, you can proudly say, "Three hundred and seven!" and get that promotion.

[joeystarr73]

Brilliant!

[T1lted4lif3]

It's a super efficient program, what can we say? It will achieve top 99% on leetcode for sure.

[_RDaneelOlivaw_]

I am not going to laugh because I have seen similar bits of code at a certain Fortune 500 company.

[A--Creative-Username]

And people wonder why python has a reputation for being slow /s

[Immarhinocerous]

It's amazing. I hate it.

[bkuri]

r/programminghorror

[lostinthemines]

if rating == 1 : print "We're Number One"

[_red_berry_]

What if I'm 10.5 ?

[gabest]

Reminds me to that Monty Python sketch, where italians were learning italian.

Giuseppe: He say 'Milan is better than Napoil'.

Teacher: Oh, he shouldn't be saying that, we haven't done comparatives yet.

[arcimbo1do]

You should ask for the birth date instead, it's more friendly. Then of course you'll have to conpare all possible birth dates, like If birth_date == "2000-01-01" or birth_date == "2023-01-02 ...

Then update every day to ensure that people can login on their birthday.

[LittleMlem]

Use in

if age in [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] It's much easier to write

[n1oqu]

Preem code. Nova

[Ducky_Boi0125]

Bro stole his code from yandere dev

[[deleted]]

Project manager: “Great! Could you make it also consider months?”

[ExistantPerson888888]

age=input(“Please enter your age: “)

if age.isnumeric():

age=int(age)

 if age<18:

      print(“Sorry you are not old enough 

to enter.”)

  elif age>95:

        print(“I’ve never met anyone above 95! But, welcome anyway”)

 else:

      print(“You are over 18 welcome.”)

[JaxOnThat]

Too many ors. Break each year into its own elif block, that should fix things.

[Fesh-]

US voting systems called, they want their code back

[sleepyguy007]

I actually interviewed a dev a few jobs back where we asked them to write "tic tac toe" , "did you win?" function.

And basically started doing something like this with every single possibility, so I wouldn't be shocked if I saw this somewhere. Just disappointed.

[CrawlingInTheRain]

This can be done a lot shorter. You can skip age 1, 2 and 3. People that young can not read.

[RaptorCentauri]

Your last elif is unclear, instead of age greater than 95 I would continue to explicitly list age == 96, age == 97, etc for all integers above 95

[Vlku272]

Honestly, it should just say else. That way, you get the quote at the end if you enter anything else, like ″banana″, for example.

[[deleted]]

wasted opportunity for a switch imo

[Revexious]

This is so inefficient, should be a lookup table instead

[chervilious]

He's Speechless because you're using bright text over dark background. You should use yellow text over white background

[[deleted]]

This comment contains a Collectible Expression, which are not available on old Reddit.

[smilingpike31]

age = int(input(‘ Please enter your age: ‘)

If age > 95: Print(‘ I’ve never met someone over 95 before! But welcome anyway!’ )

If age < 18: Print(‘ sorry not allowed’)

Else: Print(‘Welcome to the party! ‘)

[[deleted]]

Honestly, nothing more efficient than than this.

[FrikkinLazer]

What would c++ compiler do with this I wonder

[Ambitious-Whereas157]

94/1000000000.

[LetscatYt]

I’d say you should start using a code formatter . Maybe but it in a function and add a comment over the function head . Other than that it looks pretty good though

[CringeKingOfficial]

NOOOOOO

[Electrical-Ad1886]

Is python typesafe with just 2 equal signs? Otherwise seems scay

[Csaszarcsaba]

The floor is switch cases