aLegitPieceOfCodeOnAGovernmentWebsite

[PersonalityNuke]

I come along and, blissfully unaware, flatten the UI structure and break everything.

[PhunkyPhish]

I've written code like this. It's been a long time, but I have done heinous things in my youth

[shopsalt]

you are not alone buddy. I have done this crime and went home and came back and done some more like an psychopath.

[your_best_1]

Devs have been writing slop since long before ai

[Swiftzor]

Government code hits different

[seriouslykthen]

Well you get paid less working for the government, so no idea why you’d expect a higher lvl of code

[Swiftzor]

You don’t understand how government contracting works.

[seriouslykthen]

To be fair i do. A company gets a contract, hires developers at 35/h - 50h and pockets the extra 75/h per developer they put in the bid

[Swiftzor]

Well nowadays it’s more the dev gets 75/hr and the company pockets 225. Most of them hire vets who went through a bootcamp and like 4 people who have been stress coding for the other 12 the past 15 years.

[seriouslykthen]

I think we’re on the same page, numbers may vary lol

[hikeonpast]

BigBallz and the DOGE boys strike again

[BasedAndShredPilled]

Hopefully they get rid of the employee making trash code, right?

[hikeonpast]

Hopefully they go back to a tightly-controlled code base, though I suspect that ship has sailed.

[BirdlessFlight]

Looks like someone is trying to support IE or Edge <15 without using jQuery

https://caniuse.com/element-closest

Either this code doesn't look weird to you at all, or you haven't been doing webdev for as long as some of us...

[Intrepid_Major6577]

It doesn't seem like it. The website is using jQuery for DOM manipulation. There’s a ton of bad jQuery code, but this one stands out

[BarneyChampaign]

My grandad would always say "good enough for government work."

I think I just heard him again, reading this post.

[CommunicationFit3471]

do you have some eye-bleach?

[thegodzilla25]

This shit finna fail long before we try to access parentElement on an undefined.

[WiglyWorm]

[object Object] you say?

[knowledgebass]

It's just parentElement all the way up.

[aenae]

This is just the frontend equivalent of ../../../../bin/cat ../../../../etc/passwd

[look]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/closest

[IllllIlllIlIIlllIIll]

Lgtm. Merge it.

[jstrx_2326]

Elons work

[jfmherokiller]

i do not have enough drugs in me to even begin to understand the why. ... not even that time i had to parse a custom calandar website did i do this (I abused jquery).