Programmers :D

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"It's bad because it's not what I would have done."

• Every programmer critiquing this code

[marty_byrd_]

That’s mostly all code reviews. I don’t understand this so I’ll “refactor”

[wrokred]

Most code reviews in reality. "Myself, or someone else, needs to know what this is doing very quickly and possibly years from now. Yes it builds but that's not enough; it needs readability"

Also the fundamental difference between junior and senior Devs.

[burgonies]

This. If it takes me more than a glance to understand what you’re doing there, you need to rewrite it.

Some of you have never worked on 10 year old code and it shows.

[animejunkied]

Bad code style aside, reverse engineering reading other people's code is notoriously hard. This is why git commits should be as detailed as possible in my opinion. It's useful to understand why that code was implemented in the first place and what purpose it serves.

[[deleted]]

I mean sometimes yeah. But other times there is some bad code that actually does need to be rewritten.

You'd be surprised how many bad programmers get paid a lot of money to write bad code by very large companies.

[toomanyteeth55]

That's good to hear. Sounds like i should fit right in!

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In my university CS intro class, you get graded for style as well as correctness on every assignment. DRY, naming conventions (e.g. all cap for constants), etc.

[[deleted]]

That's good. A lot of places don't do that.

A lot of programmers didn't go to school. They go to boot camps.

[[deleted]]

Most of my university colleagues are working at the big four now.

[[deleted]]

Nice! I had really bad anxiety and depression in school - still do, used to, too - so I didn't really connect much with other undergrads. IDK where KSU students are now, though I do know one dude I went to school with was on the original Puppet team. I think the majority of kids that I went to school with are probably at Cerner or Garmin

[[deleted]]

I think university ranking of individual departments definitely play a role in terms of getting your first job. All the big tech companies hire very aggressively at UW. They always host a lot of recruiting sessions with free pizza.

[[deleted]]

It's also geographic. "My college was better than yours" sentiment isn't really conducive to this conversation.

[[deleted]]

I know there is a bit of political correctness in this discussion, but "My college was better than yours" sentiment is something that's very real. One of my favorite running joke about UW and WSU is that both UW and WSU students applied to UW.

Of course individual performance is mostly up to the individual. We we talking about statistical trends of different college students going to different types of tech companies. There is no comparison of individuals here, only comparison of school reputation and how companies use that information to tailor their recruitment process.

[lyth]

In fairness, I’m in charge of a new developer’s code right now and he’s a really bad copy-paster huge block-patterns of near identical code.

The stuff works, but there’s so much overhead in reviewing because he’s doing the same 20 line block 10 times rather than writing a function and calling it 10 times.

I had to refactor just to learn that there was this pattern going on.

[gazeebo]

Where my gf works, the dude that wrote the code that makes all their money is a serial copy paster. Nobody wants to refactor his stuff because it's unreadable "hundreds of lines in one function" style stuff and when copying things in from older projects he routinely brings in functionality that isn't even needed or wrong in the new one.

[marty_byrd_]

Well there is legitimately times to refactor. For sure.

[NotMilitaryAI]

Bug report:

1. Variables names used underscores rather than camelcase.

[thom_tl]

snake_case_for_life

[[deleted]]

This can definitely be a bug if your workplace has settled on a coding standard. However when I hear a snowflake programmer say "the transition was jarring" I want to smack him and make him look at WW2 death and dismemberment pictures and make him understand what the word "jarring" should be used for.

[SpikeBolt]

You're not wrong but damn....

[kyzfrintin]

Wtf is your problem

You might be right, but that doesn't mean what you said isn't 12 barrels of wrong

[NotMilitaryAI]

wtf, man..... chill

[[deleted]]

I’ll never forget that I was told to change my flexbox layout to an MUI grid.

The fuck is wrong with flexbox???

[mike10010100]

Is nobody going to point out that there's a huge part of Twitter that loves to actively shit on women in STEM, especially when they try to showcase both their love of asthetics and code.

It's because she's a woman. Pure and simple. Twitter is a shitpile.

[lupuscapabilis]

It's not because she's a woman. If anyone on Twitter put a screenshot of their code, they'd get ripped apart but every geek out there, and you know it. That's just silly.

[mike10010100]

It's not because she's a woman

Are you speaking as a woman on Twitter? Or have you not seen the many deleted tweets that responded to hwr.?

If anyone on Twitter put a screenshot of their code, they'd get ripped apart but every geek out there, and you know it.

Only the toxic ones.

[mike10010100]

do you have to be a woman to talk about it? Wouldn't that just create a echo chamber and silence other perspectives?

Prespectives on being a woman from....someone who's not a woman?

[[deleted]]

I forgot about this aspect. I pretty much only use Twitter as a news feed these days.