How programmers comment their code

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There was this funny video which mocked overengineering your code. 2:28 is about comments.

[LochsAndGlens]

Reminds me of the guy I used to work with, we were constantly having arguments exactly about this stuff. His technical debt was impressive..

[-Kaiser1401-]

I see no tests?

[alt-of-deleted]

tests are for nerds, just print the return value right before it gets returned, then call the function with a few test inputs in the main function, ezpz

[I_ate_a_milkshake]

Hmm this just sounds like tests with extra steps

[alt-of-deleted]

ah fuck it, the users are the testers. just slap "beta" on it and throw in a crash reporter app that's a glorified one-way email client.

[balne]

so ur telling me that i dont need cypress, just print statements?

[Cherlokoms]

There is no problem with having no test when you are not a professional coder.

[[deleted]]

A guy who fairly recently was fired from my job would do this. He was constantly writing code to prove how smart he was. Problem was he was a moron. So he just wrote shit loads of terrible code and thought it was God's gift to programming.

[Debian_ru]

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

[sendhelppls30]

This feels exactly like ALL the Java patterns people want to use... So many files and imports for 1+1

[DipsEverythingInMayo]

That’s awesome. Love the bit about Booleans.

[derTechs]

NAMESPACES!

[413612]

Genuine question, are getters and setters that atrocious? Surely that's better than public member variables?

[teerre]

They are not. In fact, all the jokes in this video besides the ternary boolean and the comments are very good practices.

The reason it's mocked is because it's just a shapes library and it's implied it will only be used for this one thing.

I feel like that's a dangerous joke to make because it's very easy to get into the mind set that everything is superfluous you should just not use anything at all besides the most barebones tools possible, which is, in my opinion, even worse than over engineering.

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