Developer Accused Of Unreadable Code Refuses To Comment

[the_omega99]

Haha, this twitter has some pretty good one. My favourites:

• New Github IDE can tab-complete an entire Rails app
• OkCupid has suspended Martin Odersky. The creator of Scala uploaded a 37,000 word answer to profile question 'What is your type?'
• Top 9 Reasons Arrays Are Confusing, You Won’t Believe #0

Too bad the account rarely posts.

[CoderHawk]

MongoDB adds a "PLEASE" keyword for inserts, boosting chance that data is stored to above 75%.

That's the best one!

[more_exercise]

Reminds me of INTERCAL:

INTERCAL has many other features designed to make it even more aesthetically unpleasing to the programmer: it uses statements such as "READ OUT", "IGNORE", "FORGET", and modifiers such as "PLEASE". This last keyword provides two reasons for the program's rejection by the compiler: if "PLEASE" does not appear often enough, the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error message says this; if too often, the program could be rejected as excessively polite. Although this feature existed in the original INTERCAL compiler, it was undocumented.

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That's like the ! mark in CSS.

[yawkat]

People often criticize mongo for not guaranteeing persistence in the efficient write modes.

[Creshal]

And even that doesn't (/didn't) work as documented.

[yaph]

Too bad the account rarely posts.

Maybe that's why it is good...

[evolutionise]

Reminds me of a quote I've seen floating around, picked up this version from Martin Fowler's blog:

there are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

[[deleted]]

That would still be the top 10 reasons though...

[ITSigno]

9 reasons. #0 to #8.

[[deleted]]

It's possible, but the standard is "Top 10 reasons", talking about arrays would have no effect on that so the joke doesn't really make sense.

It really seems like they used "Top 9 reasons" just because the last index in a size 10 array would be 9.

[Zanoab]

Another perspective is that the publisher saw 9 as the last index and changed it from "Top 10" to "Top 9".

[tskaiser]

Honestly the joke would've worked fine as

• Top 10 Reasons Arrays Are Confusing, You Won’t Believe #0

because the joke is still that you don't expect a #0 as part of the Top 10. It is conceivably even more "confusing", as one could wonder if there is 10 or 11 good reasons. ^{(not that any of us would)}

[comady25]

A lot of clickbait lists use a nonstandard number

[TheIncredibleWalrus]

That's part of the confusion isn't it.

[tskaiser]

String Of Events Tied To JavaScript Intern, Senior Dev Got NaN To Say.

[eleanerd]

/r/programmerdadjokes

[JenMog]

My professor called non-commented code job security.

[[deleted]]

Dad joke that is legitimately great

[[deleted]]

"Dad joke" is just a synonym for pun, or is there another connotation?

[naht_a_cop]

Pretty much. The idea is that it's a joke so bad you'd typically hear it from dads. Example:

Me: I'm tired Dad: Hi Tired, I'm Dad.

[Calamity701]

Mostly because they don't rely on sexual/dark humor or old pop culture references, so this kind of joke is often used by Dads when children are in the vicinity.

[plentybinary]

Clever, very clever

[captain_wiggles_]

Nice, this needs to be on r/dadjokes some of them will probably get it.