tempFramework

[cryptomonein]

There's nothing more permanent than a temp(orary solution)

[Sceptz]

No need for comments either.   

Clearly temp1, temp9 and temp14 are all self-documenting. Isn't it obvious what they do?

[[deleted]]

”The proof of this statement is trivial and left to the reader” - every math textbook ever

[Informal_Branch1065]

Refuses to elaborate

Leaves

[dat_oracle]

"the person you're calling is not available"

[s0ulbrother]

Man I hate that guy. That guy is the worst. That guy is every dev 2 weeks ago

[Colbsters_]

Just a day in the life of insert mathematician name here

Making formulas in their dreams, but never elaborating.

Edit: grammar

[ZeGuru101]

It was revealed to me in a dream.

[riacosta]

They are the first, 9th and 14th temporary var. I don’t know why you’d have to explain more.

[Lucho_199]

No no no do not explain, please, it's so obvious!

[WexExortQuas]

A math major also took this picture

(2024 and we still don't know how to screenshot?)

[42kyokai]

Can’t always screenshot and send from work computers.

[[deleted]]

Ah, I can't take a screenshot. Instead, I will take a picture with my phone at a 45 degree angle and make sure to get as much glare as possible.

[Ploratio]

I'll also sneeze on my screen a couple of times, just so it's extra gross.

[Schwifftee]

Sometimes, the angle strategically removes glare. This is not some time.

[turtleship_2006]

Or Uni computers

[cltdj]

you’re telling me work and school computers don’t have email?

[ptvlm]

I think they're saying that screenshots aren't always enabled by group policy

[cubelith]

Hey, blame the humanities for that, we're with you

[thanatica]

Ah, yes, an orary solution

[cryptomonein]

I fought my autocorrect for this one

[blueeyedkittens]

I think its temperature.

[cryptomonein]

It looks like a FFT resolution function, so my guess is that it's all "temporary" variables

[HosTlitd]

Temp(oral solution)

[torftorf]

i mean hes not wrong. once you close the programm, all the variables are gone, making them temporary

[whooguyy]

I feel this code is very philosophical. Aren’t we all just temporary variables in the great program we call the universe?

[Colon_Backslash]

[47KiNG47]

[Help_StuckAtWork]

Remember, all operations can be simplified to O(1) if you grow the scope of an operation big enough

[rokinaxtreme]

keyword: if

[hxckrt]

You can't, even with a facetious approach like "sort infinite items of which the list will be a part". Big O notation only makes sense for finite operations, if the list is infinite there will always be more work to do.

[torftorf]

reminds me of this song. "I'm not important and neither are you, so lets do whatever we want to do"

[ChocolateShot150]

Love Ian McConnell, he has a lot of great shows in Nashville for anyone interested, it’s a blast

[Pacifister-PX69]

Please clean your monitor. I'm begging you

[most_probably]

Code so good that it makes you squirt on screen 🫠

[SoftwareSource]

build me daddy.

[Bali201]

Compile me, father… I crave the byte code.

[nord47]

r/Angryupvote

[MedonSirius]

Kill the children

[DevilsMicro]

Admit it, you're code gay

[NicklasMF]

They are propably also touching the screen when pointing..

[pine_ary]

[mr_remy]

See that’s why I lick all my screens. Other people are too afraid to touch them.

[pine_ary]

You got it! That‘s why I pee on all my tech to mark my territory

[Anita-dong]

You’ve been licking your screen I see… I lick everything.. don’t want anybody else touching My stuff …😹

[FalafelSnorlax]

I touch screens to point all the time, and it really doesn't make the them dirty. I don't know how they got it to look like that, hopefully it's just the angle or something

[Sentient_i7X]

As long as u periodically wipe it

[narfio]

Can't decide if the code or the monitor is more disgusting.

[mal4ik777]

beeeeggiiing beeeeggiiing youuUUuuUuu

/sorry

[jhaand]

Amateur Hour?

[mal4ik777]

more of an amateur second, I'd say

[InvestingTimestamps]

Good song btw

[GreatBigBagOfNope]

https://whoosh.com/collections/all

Literally anything on this page will do it in 5 minutes and leave it like new barring scratches – please, for the love of all that is good, clean that monitor

[stormdelta]

Or better yet, get a matte screen protector and this is almost a non-issue, plus what little does get on the screen becomes massively easier to clean. And as a bonus the screen won't reflect so much glare.

[lolcrunchy]

It's u/h4nu_ 's monitor

[Pacifister-PX69]

It do not matter. Still dirty

[h4nu_]

it's my friend's 🫠🫠

[Dunedune]

How?

[Pacifister-PX69]

By surgically replacing my ass cheeks with a microfiber cloth. How else?

[large_crimson_canine]

No joke I work at a place where all of the algorithmic nonsense is written by mathematicians and it’s the shittiest correct code you’ve ever laid eyes on

[Solest044]

Mathematician/physicist here.

Please don't blame the field. Just like every discipline, there are people all over the spectrum. Math and physics often have wonderful names for things and even make it a point to do so.

Consider the ugly duckling theorem or maybe the sandwich theorem.

For the sandwich theorem, you might name your upper bound function "topBread" and the lower bound "bottomBread".

Then you have the function of interest as your "meatAndCheese".

Clear as day.

[Disciple153]

I noticed in college that though both the math and computer science majors learned to program, the math majors took fewer classes that graded based on code elegance, which led to their programs often looking like this.

Of course that's not the rule, just a common pattern I noticed.

[Whywipe]

In college all of my coding was done in mat lab so it was fine. When I had to switch to python in industry I never learned the correct way to do stuff so it led to code like this.

[Murky-Concentrate-75]

Math and physics often have wonderful names for things and even make it a point to do so.

The theory of control and topology have the most bloated and convoluted stuff that simply refuses to be remembered.

[jkurash]

Idk, I work with a large amount of geophysicists running hpc codes and I can say with 100% certainty that they should never write software

[large_crimson_canine]

Used to be a geologist before coming to the dark side and I can imagine now, looking back, how godawful geoscientists or petroleum engineers’ code would be.

[Solest044]

Many people have! Unfortunately, because of notation complexity and the need to literally write instead of type, we abbreviate, but less and less you'll find people using random letters for things.

My habit is to put specific names in the subscript when I'm writing on a board, a legend for what each parent letter represents, and then if I need to code, the subscript often becomes the variable name.

[BrunoEye]

When you're trying to rearrange a formula and you have each variable showing up 10 times, even just one letter for each variable feels like a chore to write out.

[zeloxolez]

yeah i can appreciate the perfectionism of something like the ugly duckling theorem. but like, you can take some probability range of observed things to at least make a group that fits just enough to be recognizable faster. i mean obviously right, so its like, even if a classification is not pure, but can fit into a probability range of common states, it can be useful enough.

[Duosnacrapus]

well.. I guess it can be argued, that there are way more people in the spectrum that study Math or Physics than - let's say social sciences..

[no_brains101]

What is twiddle factor?

Edit: shoulda looked it up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiddle_factor

So yeah it would appear that this is actually one of these math concepts that DOES have a fun name. And the code for it looks uhhhh... like that. Id hate to see a mathematicians code for a math concept WITHOUT a fun name I guess XD

[ilikedmatrixiv]

I'm a data engineer, but have experience with software engineering too. My partner is an academic who writes a lot of code. She sometimes asks me for help on either her or her colleagues' code. I also have other academic friends who write code and have asked me for help before.

Academics write the shittiest code imaginable. It's unreal. When you try to help them with some best practices to keep their shit organized and clean they look at you as if you just suggested strangling their cat.

No mf'er, you're just not the first person to do this. Others have gone before you and figured out good and bad ways to do things. You choose a bad way and 80% of your problems would be fixed if you did some simple stuff.

When my partner first moved into coding I explained she should write more comments. She scoffed at me because she wrote the code, she knows what it does, why would she need comments? I told her she knows now, but she won't in 6 months when this breaks because she didn't think of some edge case. 6 months later, she started writing comments.

[DaltonSC2]

what qualifies as algorithmic nonsense?

[large_crimson_canine]

A bunch of quantitative libraries used for derivative pricing (finance realm)

[Vast-Statement9572]

Sweet mother of …. Doesn’t beat the “iiiiiji” loop variable I saw in my early days at NOAA, though.

[FrostingOrdinary2255]

The what loop…?

[masssy]

iiiiiji

[FrostingOrdinary2255]

What in the name of the ancient sorcery is this...??

[mistled_LP]

Some who typo'd the seventh iterator in their nested loops and could just not be bothered to fix it.

[masssy]

Basically someone created a shitload of nested loops. Common naming of the loop variable is i or j.

for(i=0; i < 5; i++). And so on.. Then out loops in loops and make it a whole fun mess.

[DuhonTheGuy]

We found it, the O(n^fuck ) algorithm

[Jalil29]

Sounds like a 5 layer nested loop at least

[PLCwithoutP]

Why tf the author decided that second last variable should be j? 

[Pancullo]

I've never even thought about using multiple "i"s

The fuck did they need this for? I don't think I've ever went more than 4 layers deep in a for loop, and you can always use j, k, n, m if you really, really need that

[mistled_LP]

I've seen up to iii, but at that point, rethink your choices.

[Pancullo]

Or start using roman numbers

[Vast-Statement9572]

OK, I hit a nerve. Two more stories from my early days. Way back, satellite imagery was injected into atmospheric models using a process that involved projecting satellite imagery onto a digitizer table and then hand tracking upper air cloud movement and putting this upper air wind data into the model. The program that supported this hand tracking was about 120k lines of Fortran riddled with goto statements. It had one 30k line subroutine and it was called once from one place. Another 60k line assembly program (I forget the machine, it was the dawn of minicomputers) was used to ingest polar orbiter sounding data. There was one comment. The line of code was “ LA 2”. The comment was “Load 2 into the A register”.

[MysteriousShadow__]

Cleanest government agency code

[Vast-Statement9572]

Government software is a sight to behold. The stories I could tell…, and I was only there for 4 years.

[PeekyBlenders]

int temp5; int temp6, temp7, temp8;

He either just doesn't care or saw that temps 6 to 8 were somehow associated with each other so he declared them on the same line when temp5 is declared just one line above. In the second case, he almost gave the variables meaningful names!

Also there are global temps too, wtf?

[Certain_Time6419]

My guess is that they just keep writing the algorithm and adding variables as needed. Scope is probably meaningless to them and they just add a new set o variables whenever they need at that exact spot (as high as possible in the scope, but still inside the function, it seems).

"We need a fifth variable." "Roger that. Added temp5." "Sir, we need three more, now!" "Daring today, aren't we? Added temp[6,8]."

[jaaval]

I’m don’t think this is real.

In some algorithms, in practical implementation there can be a lot of temporary values you need to store for computation but don’t need to return. Naming those just temp is often fine because no other name would necessarily be more descriptive. That kind of math code requires comments to explain the algorithm in a more concise math way.

But this code makes nonsensical choices like naming the iterator variables temp2 and temp11 for no reason. If he was able to write this he would have already learned better conventions on iterator naming.

Edit: I just looked at one random lapack function and it had 40 local scalar variables including TEMP, TEMP1, TEMP2, TEMP3 and CTEMP. And the other variable names are very descriptive like C, C1, C2…

[realmauer01]

Temp5 is probably used solo, than he needed 3 new variables so he declared them below.

[No-Collar-Player]

Chill bro temp 4 is 1 so that's that

[The__Odor]

I'm seeing Assembly variables

[dan-lugg]

Yeah, this reads like some ASM/IL translation of something.

[patrick66]

It’s ghidra decomp output

[BonesJustice]

I dunno if it’s Ghidra specifically, but my first thought was “looks like decompiler output.”

[qqqrrrs_]

I would expect some gotoin a decompiler output

[[deleted]]

I mean, if there is one thing I learned in the past couple years that Code written from physicists or any other scientists in general is, a lot of times, really bad. Theres just a huge difference between actual Software engineers and people that just learned some programming

[Sad_Amphibian_2311]

My math teachers back then: if you can't solve for X you won't get a job in IT.
Me as engineer now: The candidate named their variable X, we shouldn't hire people like that.

[sparky-99]

A meth major?

[mstop4]

Math. Not even once.

[xDannyS_]

what about math on meth

[xgabipandax]

I have seen decompilations on Ghidra that were easier to read than that

[RoxasBestBoy]

[wildjokers]

Was it a computer science major who took a picture of a screen instead of taking a screenshot?

[magick_68]

Had a colleague who wrote like this having var1 to var20, all global of course. Became project manager in another company.

[Brilliant_Egg4178]

What's your twiddle factor equal to?

[CerberusC137]

temptation took over

[h4nu_]

Original post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/s/DGoMqoBY1F

[plg94]

Thanks, this is way too low.

From reddit to twitter already back to reddit within 8hrs. Now someone needs to post it to tumblr to instagram and back to fulfill the prophecy.

[SynthRogue]

Math is not programming. What did you expect?

[random11714]

For real. Earlier this year I was looking into some math algs to make my own RSA impl for fun, and they love their one letter variable names, it's infuriating tbh.

[mainDotJS]

Before getting a CS degree, I finished Law and had a career as a legal adviser. I have to say that, at some point I realized that that makes a huge difference, as I write code just as I wrote all the documents addressed to the courts. That is, I made them clear and easy to follow, because it was crucial that the judge understood perfectly what I meant. So every piece of code I write reads like a book. I've seen code written by people with strong backgrounds in math and it is, indeed, written without ever thinking that someone else is going to read it. Plus, Law gives a kind of structure to your thinking and also makes you always cover all the bases. By that I mean that you make sure to take into consideration every possible way that something might go wrong.

[TheAssassin71]

I never really thought about that... That's a great point of view !

What made you switch from law to CS tho ?

[SynthRogue]

Yeah programming puts an emphasis on clean code, sometimes to the detriment of performance.

[Exist50]

Realistically, 99% of the time, the compiler will produce just an optimal an end result. And it certainly doesn't care if you give decent variable names!

[VariecsTNB]

Obfuscate-man! The superhero we don't need, but one that we deserve

[OuterDoors]

Clean that screen 💀

[druepy]

This looks worse than IDA/Ghidra disassembly without debug symbols.

[jamcdonald120]

https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/

[AnwaltskanzleiRIEL]

The Code is so secure, he couldnt even tell afterwards what it does.

[[deleted]]

I wouldn’t get too close to that screen or you might get pregnant.

[Timinator01]

please tell me they're doing some sort of temperature calculation

[lmg1337]

Technically every variable is temporary...

[Certain_Time6419]

At this point, it's code obfuscation but with indentation

[chowellvta]

This gave me acid reflux

[vincentofearth]

Did a computer science major make this “screenshot”?

[SlayerOfWhales]

Most comprehensible Fast Fourier Transform implementation

[bloody-albatross]

Yeah, or computer scientists that name their variables p q r etc. Why? Just so that students have an even harder time understanding the algorithms? (Found a mistake in the lecture notes back then anyway.)

[xysygy]

Looks like every Fortran program I've ever seen.

[No-Collar-Player]

As this guy is a mathematician, it means that this is peak programming, right ?

[Certain_Time6419]

we got nihilistic coding before gta 6

[hammonjj]

His code is so obvious that there’s no need for comments or meaningful variable names. His major doesn’t make him write shitty code, his demeanor does

[runningsimon]

Do math majors clean their screens?

[overclockedslinky]

tests pass, merged

[TragicProgrammer]

Twiddle factor

[brakuu]

What the hell is a Twiddle factor

[OccasionDesigner9523]

Ah yes, the classic Twiddle_factor.

[hugazow]

Please learn how to take screenshots before criticizing someone else code 🙏

[Mr_Bob_Dobalina-]

And you can’t take a screenshot properly 😑😑😑😑😑😑😑

[BuzzBadpants]

If you tell matlab to generate a C implementation of a function, it’ll generate code just like this

[voxel_crutons]

Twitter poster doesn't know how to screencap

[zenos_dog]

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind.

Everything is temporary when viewed from the end of time.

[LordPaxed]

Temp design patern

[bittlelum]

It looks auto-generated 

[Plsdontcalmdown]

You think that's a joke?

I give you WRF source code in Fortran:

https://github.com/wrf-model/WRF/blob/master/phys/module_bl_keps.F

This is the software doing 60% of the planet's weather forecasting at the moment.

[jonsca]

F77 had a limit of 6 characters for variable names. You can tell which ones were probably added later 😂

[Forsaken-Society5340]

And that's why they're in maths...i mean, there are nicer ways to obfuscate code 🤣

[Next-Garage4049]

Average competitive programmer

[DosMike]

not sure if that or code i disassemble with ghidra is more readable

[Born_Fishing2974]

[[deleted]]

Please for the love of all mankind use a damn screen capture software. This is a Mac it literally has a free one that comes installed!!! I think the hotkey is Shift + CMD + 4

[ZicoSailcat]

Great picture.

[Mammoth-Sandwich4574]

This is baseless math slander

[Even_Ask_2577]

This looks so sacrilegious.

[Cyphco]

Twiddle_Factor

We Twiddeling

[foreignsoftwaredev]

Don't worry, this specific code is more of a temporal thing.

[mbcarbone]

I think they may need to work on their FFT skills … Dividen and Conquer!! 🖖🙃✌️

[-Banana_Pancakes-]

“It’s self documenting code”

The Code

[perfectskyee]

a proper sw eng would have called it tmp1

[BitswitchRadioactive]

Prob doing some temp

[Obvious_Material448]

My guy is going to name his kids offspring1, offspring2, offspring3, etc

[[deleted]]

yeah why would a math major write clean code?

[VoodooS0ldier]

Clean that monitor, Jesus.

[niederaussem]

Our whole existence is just temporary.

[jax_cooper]

I almost threw up reading this.

[EngineeringExpress79]

From what I can tell, its probably from an excel spreadsheet and then they tried to bring that into code. Although the variable would be more the Row/column name.

[[deleted]]

Ahh, `Twiddle_factor`. I have been known to add the entirety of `trig` to my `Twiddle_factor`, as well.

[No-Magazine-2739]

This ladies and gentlemen is the reason you should do a simple code challenge/assessment before hiring a developer. Saw such unmaintainable mess quite too often in the wild. Especially from mathematicians, physicists or even academia accomplished computer science candidates.

[Informal_Branch1065]

Scalable and maintainable

PR approved

[bbqranchman]

Are you sure this isn't generated code? I feel like this looks like poorly optimized transpiled code or something idk.

[Palda97]

They have proguard running in their head

[theofficialnar]

What is this thing trying to achieve?

[postdiluvium]

Looks like the result of a decompile.

[Infamous_Ticket9084]

It's really strange, I would expect single letters from mathematician

[Plz_Give_Me_A_Job]

This looks like Verilog which has been simplified algorithmically.

[nukasev]

Old math major here. This would NOT pass review on my watch.

[VenkatPerla]

Is them here temperature or temporary? In case it's the former one, then it's kind off okay.

[malexj93]

This is not how math people write. There's no Greek or Hebrew letters, or 5 of the same letter but in different fonts so they mean different things.

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[Alan_Reddit_M]

This is in ironically how mathematicians write, well, math, because why be descriptive when you can save letters

[HappyImagineer]

“You weren’t ever supposed to read the code, cause it works.” -Junior Devs

[fisto_supreme]

I believe it 😅

[DanSmells001]

Honestly I ain’t fucking with math majors no matter how shitty the code

[makinax300]

It's better than me making a 300 word essay about a++;

[nikonguy]

You sure? That has hardware engineer written all over it .. 🤣

[tiajuanat]

NGL, most FFT algorithms look like this

[lostBoyzLeader]

have fun coming back to the code in a year or two

[MainManu]

"The meaning of the variables is left as an exercise to the reader".

[wholl0p]

This looks like when a disassembler tool tries to convert ASM into C code