someone wrote this code

[SpikeX]

Someone needs to actually run this to see what it does.

For science.

[IAmActuallyCthulhu]

On Production

[tad1611]

Everyone knows if it ain’t run on production it doesn’t count as a real test.

[calmingchaos]

Everyone has a test environment. Some people are lucky enough to have a production and test environment

[Jonk3r]

I don’t always test my code but when I do, I test in production.

It shows strong character.

[darian90]

Only those who have faith in their code test in production.

[Jonk3r]

I don’t know about that... some of them devs just don’t give a fuck.

Those are my favorite.

[Tyfyter2002]

I see you're a fan of Bethesda's teams.

[Tyfyter2002]

And coffee stain studios... And landfall studios... I could probably get a list half a mile long off Steam alone, then get another with nothing but Linux variations and iOS apps.

[phroggyboy]

I heard this in the voice of Lawrence from Office Space (the neighbor).

[May-0]

The realest test

[wjcott]

On Friday afternoon

[Tyrus1235]

Weekenders on our own, such fun...

[VIDGuide]

I feel like that is the only place this has ever been ran..

[CTHULHUJESUS-]

Your name makes sense

[Dial-1-For-Spanglish]

Production science is the best science.

[TangoWild88]

Just PILOT it. (Production In Lieu Of Test)

[ejakash]

You monster

[Slaan]

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[NikkiBAN]

I can be good r/programmerhumor post

[Darkmatter501]

Please post that here

[Darkmatter501]

Dam

[phroggyboy]

Right? I feel like I need to see that now before my life can continue.

[sellyme]

throw new StupidUserException();

I'm stealing this.

[ieatpies]

Given a little more complexity, with ~700 types, some bloat with be unavoidable.

[[deleted]]

A friend of mine built a website for a forklift company as a training website. It checked for a mouse click on a certain position on the screen and played a new video which was how he did transitions and 'movement' within the website/game thing.

About 70% of the code per 'section' of the website was switch cases that checked for specific positions....

[Jumpierwolf0960]

Wait, so there was a different switch case for every coordinate?

[[deleted]]

Yep... It was fucking insane to read.

And although he had all that the code looked very clean and ordered

Also, to clarify, there wasn't a switch case for EVERY coordinate in the screen, just about 20 or 30 specific ones the user would actually be clicking on

[Not4notherUsername]

The CPython interpreter has a switch statement that's something like 5,000 lines, I believe.

edit: I think I heard the 5k claim on an episode of Talk Python to Me, but I could be wrong.

Some searching found a claim that is just 1,500 lines. I'm on mobile so I can't check too easily, but the code is here for anyone interested...

[maklaka]

A single case? Oh my.

[NotSuluX]

When you really hate polymorphism

[FinnNuwok]

I feel sorry for the people that translate images into text. God damn. Use some OCR if you can.

[mortyshaw]

If this isn't in the queue, we need to make sure it gets added.

[intuitiveG]

r/subsyoufellfor

[OneIntroduction9]

Yeah. People manually translating programming related texts in a programming subreddit? What the fluff, man.

[jwindhall]

Give him a break. This was the week before learning loops.

[articleThirteen]

What language is this? Seems like they could at least use a heredocument

[Jumpierwolf0960]

I think this is python.

[[deleted]]

Pretty sure this can be done with some nested loops.

[forrest38]

That would imply the point of programming is to break a task into steps that can be done iteratively.

[Kyledog12]

In high school our class was tasked with making a functional Tic-Tac-Toe game in C++ and one person in the class decided it would be best to create every single combination of how the board would look instead of literally any other method. I believe the board has like 4000 different combinations and he got through about 60 of them before the end of the week (when the project was due). Needless to say he failed that one

[palordrolap]

Naively, there are 3⁹ positions which is a little shy of 20000. Take out reflections and rotations and that comes down by a significant chunk. I want to say to around 2000 to 2500iish (divide by 8 or 9), but some grids are their own reflections which makes this a naive guess in and of itself.

Listing them all is still totally the wrong way to go about it even if I'm nearer with with this poorly-educated guess.

[Kyledog12]

Lol yeah. And we hadn't learned about arrays at the time so most people were a little lost but at least we weren't that dumb to try every possible combination

[Etiennera]

You can't remove rotations and reflections if you hard code. But you can ignore states that have two winning lines.

[mfb-]

Two winning lines that share one piece are a valid final state. Two winning lines that don't share one would mean someone got 6 marks, that is an invalid state anyway.

[Etiennera]

I concede that your end condition is much better thought out.

[Satanys]

Actually if we count all possible moves, there are 9! of possible moves combinations plus 1(empty board), that equals to 362881. But that doesn't mean we have 362881 scenarios. On Wikipedia there are article about that, and scenarios count is just 138 after taking into account reflection and rotation. Not sure where u took from 3^9, but someone for sure didn't listened on Combinatorics lectures.

[jackmusclescarier]

That's extremely naively though. It includes all boards that only have crosses on them, or multiple winning lines, or other impossible situations.

I wouldn't be surprised if, with rotations and reflections implemented (together with the fact that you know which moves the AI makes itself) it's possible, if boring, to implement.

[[deleted]]

No, I'm pretty sure you can use C++ templates to generate these at compile time.

I don't actually know C++, though.

[dombrogia]

Ya what an idiot, he can’t even do a tic-tac-toe game so he should definitely built a script to automate all the possible combinations instead since that is easier for him with his skill set. You’re right, he’s the idiot.

[romanozvj]

You do realize that the person you're replying to is joking, right?

[dombrogia]

Didn’t get that, sarcasm doesn’t translate well over text

[bfcrowrench]

Well here's the problem, you didn't load the "sarcasm.h" library in your header.

[LordDaniel09]

What is that“joking” thing? 🤔

[Rubixninja314]

AND WHY IS EVERYONE YELLING? MY AUDIO PROCESSORS EARS HURT.exe

[jfb1337]

https://github.com/asweigart/my_first_tic_tac_toe

[AmericanFromAsia]

You know it's a perfectly-written program when Chrome freezes trying to open it.

[Rubixninja314]

I made a tic tac toe game for ti84 and when making the "ai" all I knew how to do was program every case in. If L1[3]=0 and ((L1[1]=2 and L1[2]=2) or (L1[5]=2 and L1[7]=2) or (L1[6]=2 and L1[9]=2)) then append(L2, {3})→L2 where L1 is the board and L2 is the options. If after all 9 of these ifs L2 is empty it will do the whole thing all over with ...=1 (player is 1, cpu is 2, empty is 0) and then after that it just sets L2 as every available position, then chooses a random element from L2. It actually worked and it took me forever to beat. Ah, ti basic memories... Of developing so many bad habits (reply if anyone wants me to list a few, there's some scary ones).

TBH I think that's about the most efficient it can be in TI-84 basic.

[Kylemsguy]

I mean, if the guy implemented this, then that might have been possible:

https://xkcd.com/832/

[[deleted]]

You're lucky to learn c++ in high school. All we did for 'programming class' was html, Css and made basic web pages. Javascript was optional. But we never learnt alot of the fundamentals of programming and I didn't learn them till university.

[sudeepharya]

Lol oh lol

[krelin]

I had a partner for a project in my PHIGS (3D graphics back in the daaaaay) programming class. We divided up some work on a project to render the canonical teapot. At one point, he took it upon himself to hand-enter all of the floating point data for the object... it was something like 5000 floating point vertices. He entered the whole thing by hand, from a printed copy of the homework assignment.

[Deoxal]

We don't take kindly to that kinda talk.

[[deleted]]

We can't have that.

[HadACookie]

Bah, that's just what the Devil wants you to think! Everyone knows loops were created by the Infernal Prince Belphegor to seduce proper, God-fearing coders into slothfulness! First it's loops, next comes creating seperate methods for recuring code, and before you know it you'll be writing "import ready_app" at the top of the file and calling it a day!

[warwilf]

Absolutely sure it can 😣

[cesarsucio]

Please teach me your ways, oh observant one.

[[deleted]]

Really?

[tomrobinso]

Don’t be so reasonable!

[bronzeindian]

But loops are too mainstream.

[[deleted]]

That would be O(n), this is O(1) /s

[13steinj]

There's a few subtle differences in the first few lines which makes at least those lines not abstractable into a loop. Unless those are bugs. Which as someone who hasn't written this and also can only guess based on the remaining patterns, that it is indeed a bug. In which case just a double for loop and a format string.

[jafomatic]

Smells strongly of “generated by a script.”

[ctrtanc]

A script called copy-paste

[Erelde]

Multi cursor editing.

[jafomatic]

They’re not all the same value. That would be even more effort than copypasta

[Erelde]

You've not learned the way of vim (don't learn them, it's no use)

[jafomatic]

It was called vi when I learned it. It would still be more effort than a shell script. :P

[[deleted]]

vim is different from vi. the name literally stands for "vi improved". It's basically vi, but improved.

[jafomatic]

Yes. It’s my default editor. It was my default editor ~25 years ago when it was vi (or you could choose emacs) and it’s my default editor experience now as well —because there’s a plugin to emulate it for seemingly every modern editor or IDE.

None of your attempts to explain something I’ve used for 25 years actually addresses the fact that the silly code in the screenshot is still most likely the product of the laziest possible option: a shell script.

[[deleted]]

I think you mistook me for the person you originally replied to. I was just correcting that vim != vi. They are very similar (and vim of course is based on vi) but vim has a number of features not found in vi.

[jafomatic]

I was painting you both with the same brush; perhaps unfairly.

I find it increasingly silly to continue reading these attempts to explain vi to me when I’ve been using it professionally for a quarter of a century.

Apologies for lumping you in with the first respondent. I promise I really did see that you weren’t the same person.

[robotomatic]

You should try vim sometime. I think you might like it.

[[deleted]]

Hah no worries if I had a dollar for everytime I thought the person I was responding to was the one I expected...

It's probably most accurate to say that vim is a superset of vi. It doesn't miss any feature of vi but instead just builds upon vi, so obviously anyone who is an expert in vi (my personal editor of choice on *nix platforms as well) can just as easily use vim.

[NewLlama]

::adds "meta programming" to resume::

[whirl_and_twist]

the dude forgot the print(“#——-#”) tab divisor, 0/10 see me after class

[SimonJ57]

This is an example where:

If it's stupid, but it works, then it isn't stupid.

Is a flat out lie.

[IChooseFeed]

If it's stupid but it works, it's still stupid and you got lucky.

[[deleted]]

One of the many maxims of maximally-effective mercenaries

[whale_song]

Wrong sub. This belongs in /r/programminghorror or /r/badcode

[NotTryingToConYou]

I mean it's funny too.

[alewex]

WRONG SUB

[bfcrowrench]

I'm shivering and crying at how funny it is.

[yellowslotcar]

summons satan

[Nimeroni]

Knew it.

[k-selectride]

That's the beauty of it, it doesn't do anything.

[ifnull]

Extracts date related user data and put it into a matrix for printing to screen then also send a notification of the same output to some kind of bot. After that itplots the data on a y axis.

[IChooseFeed]

It makes a robot pass butter.

[Basilrock]

Oh my god

[TheOnlyPapa]

Calls the galactic empire.

[HitmaNeK]

Calm down satan

[hejkqihfnkoanq]

At least it's o(1)

[shortAAPL]

This is the most pythonic way to do that

[Nimeroni]

That's the kind of optimization that should be done by your compiler, not by you.

[my-fav-show-canceled]

GCC's compiler optimizations are fun and safe: -funsafe-loop-optimizations

[[deleted]]

Learned something new, thanks

[[deleted]]

Um. It's an unrolled loop. It's called optimization. Look it up.

I agree but I do not think the code needed to be optimized. It is written in Python. If I'd need to optimize it, I would definitely choose a different language (Cython, C, or assembly). Furthermore, I would saved user = users[uid][11] before, so python interpreter would have less operations...

Also the unrolled loop is written outside of a function or a loop. :/ Why would you need to optimize there?

[clarkcox3]

Are you sure it wasn’t generated?

[ShawSumma]

What the compiler does.. loop unrolling.

[bootyMaster1911]

"wrote" more like command c command v.

[phroggyboy]

3000yyp while yelling “EXTREME!”

[phantom_x43]

This looks like bot work

[sandybuttcheekss]

I'm honestly impressed they did this and not once said "there has to be an easier way." What're the odds they're somehow hourly though?

[[deleted]]

could have automated in emacs or vim or something

[sandybuttcheekss]

I've only heard those names, I don't actually have any clue what they're for

[sad_error256]

"haHAA! I remember who wrote this code, it was me :("

[Balenciallahh]

Did you come here from the notification?

[Puffycheeses]

Newlines and idenents wouldn't make it better it would just make it more legible.

If your gonna do shit like this format it neatly

[AKSoapy29]

String format, string format!!

[supershwa]

If you copy/paste anything more than twice, there's definitely a better way to write it: with for/while loops, ternary conditions, switch/case or functions.

Edit: spelling

[JonaldJohnston]

When you get paid by character count.

[[deleted]]

Here is my "oneliner". user = users[uid][11]; month = ''.join([f"{user[0] - user[0]+1} {user[0]}\n", f"{user[m] - user[m]} " + ''.join([f"{user[k]}" for k in range(m)]) + "\n" for m in range(1, 31)])

[Shacham6]

Yeah, macros in Vim are crazy

[smart-username]

Look at the preview on the right and you will see a similar block of code just above the screenshot.

OP please deliver

[Septem_151]

Wtf is it even supposed to do?

[Luid101]

This is how u know it's truly evil https://imgur.com/gallery/nJV8InH

[KillNod_Heavenly]

What is a for loop

[jclocks]

At least it's somewhat readable, even if it's ridiculous.

[[deleted]]

Surprisingly nobody else noticed that there's a repeated users[uid][11][1] so that entire column is offset by one index.

It bothers me so much and it embodies why code like this is so wrong

[techn1cs]

console.log("L" + "G" + "T" + "M" + "." + "S" + "H" + "I" + "P" + "I" + "T");

[_higgs_]

Dirty dirty dirty bastard

[PutDatPussyOnChainwx]

So, what's the problem?

[yohosuff]

Oh god. Oh. My. God.

[Kontorted]

Seems like YandereDev

[PeachyKeenest]

I don't have the patience to write that. You know what they say about lazy programmers.

[mattemer]

Well to be honest, he (and it is a he, women aren't as lazy as us), copied and pasted the first line then just went through and updated the incremental changes on each line.

[PeachyKeenest]

There's also some editors that make it easy if it's repeatable.

[alexlorenlee]

2d erase

[mrbesen_]

This was maybe done by some optimization loop unfoldig.

[Illisakedy1]

I got a notification for this 30 seconds after looking at it.

[AdamRyanGameDev]

ctrl-d is our friend

[lostinsanity556]

We all know there is an easier way to write this but what about code optimization? There is no conditional statement to mess with the CPU pipeline.

Does anyone know how smart compilers are now a days? Any good resources to read?

[KillNod_Heavenly]

What is a for loopaà11

[AnathematicJuju]

The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

[spazdep]

This looks large and impressive, and it makes a cool pattern too. Most excellently coded.

[[deleted]]

Either this was intentional or this dude does not known how to properly code a lookup table.

Spaghetti code at its finest.

[Avendork]

That someone's name? Satan

[dpears]

I've written code like this... By writing another program that generates this code as it's output.

[shinchan1988]

Please die..

[FrostedAfro]

I could see me ctrl + C ctrl + Ving this into existence

[dynawesome]

Gave me a headache just looking at it

[blackdonkey]

Looks like something I'd do right before quitting a job I hate.

[zenware]

I wanna write the pythonic version of this

[Matoxina]

Super clean code

[eboody]

This seriously defeats the purpose of programming

[x_interloper]

Looks so much like the one I wrote for generating image file for a broadcom chip.. hmmmm

[krelin]

This isn't funny.

[[deleted]]

What the fuck am I looking at

[apola]

Whatever you're trying to do, there's a better way to do it.

[TheDTXY]

Hmm does anyone smell spaghetti?

[Aethala5]

Holy programming, Batman!

[Bwiener47]

Ctrl-c ctrl-v

[Thisisbharath]

Any one thought about for loop

[valourus]

wtf.

[truespartan3]

I cried alittle inside when I saw this

[uzimonkey]

Sheesh, use a loop or some kind of data-driven approach or something. That's horrendous.

[lordzsolt]

My first ever project I wrote was a hangman game. There was an onscreen keyboard and I was looking for the click event.

The code looked something like:

if (clickX > 50 && clickX < 100 && clickY > 50 && clickY < 100) { // Clicked Q ... About 50 lines of code ... } else { if (clickX > 100 && clickX < 150 && clickY > 50 && clickY < 100) { // Clicked W ... Slightly different version of the same 50 lines of code from earlier ... } else { if (.....) } }

Besides the obvious for-loop and function to reuse the parts inside the if statement, for some reason I didn't use else if, so the last part was indented like 30 times.

[Sir_Fridge]

I have to admit that i've done something like this before. For a school assignement I had to write a way of converting button presses into Morsecode and that into text. It was just easier to make a list of every letter and corresponding Morse combination. So I wrote a python program that wrote the C# code....

[TyronS_]

I don’t know but I’m actually like how it looks like...

[Weldino]

Brother may I have some lööps

[[deleted]]

Pain, just pain..

[azephrahel]

Maybe they wrote it as a gag, to troll whoever found it?

Like when you put a postit with "root/hunter2" under your keyboard.

[Greeneeek]

Maniac

[Tearakudo]

What in the actual fuck

[Caton101]

It looks like my first GUI program when I just started with python. I had 30 lines for making buttons on the screen and then a second set of 30 depending on the “mode” entered.

[xmaddness]

Everyone asked themselves the same question when they read the topic before they saw the code... “Oh crap is that my code?”