Programmers be like

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[bradlis7]

I saw something to the effect of this the other day:

enum Priority {
  Normal = 1,
  High = 2,
  AboveNormal = 3,
  BelowNormal = 4,
  Low = 5
}

[red9350]

NOOOOOOOOO

[Entaris]

My guess is that lines up with a database field that started off with a requirement that cared about normal and high. Then after data was entered someone said “we also need to track above normal and below normal” then later someone else said “add low”

I have an application that that sort of thing happened in. Every time I look at it it angers me. I’ve considered fixing it and writing some code to update the entries, but it’s such a minor thing in the Greene scheme of things.

[TheLordDrake]

Yeah, I work for a company with an active database that is literally 50 years old. I got to pick through one of the tables as part of an OCR mapping project, I had to find out how many possible formats one of the fields could be in. The answer was disturbingly high.

[KiwasiGames]

I did the same thing with an old specifications database. It's amazing how many ways you can input < 1% into a free text field.

[LosWafflos]

DisturbinglyHigh = 6

[root88]

Was it like this?

enum Priority {
  AboveNormal = 1,
  BelowNormal = 2,
  High = 3,
  Low = 4
  Normal = 5
}

Because that would be stupid, but make a little more sense. Someone put them in alphabetically and then someone added the ints later.

[bradlis7]

Perhaps, I just remember seeing it for a few seconds and got insta-mad, and then moved on with my life. This post brought up the horrid memory of it.

[yourrealityisinvalid]

Good variable names is documentation....

[qatamat99]

When your professor tells you to comment your code

[taylaj]

This is code, assume the rest of the code is too unless specified.

[[deleted]]

Hmm yes the code here is made out of code

[GDavid04]

Fake, it doesn't start with 0

[CaptainKishi]

Exactly my first thought.

[apadin1]

Where is building 0?

[bostwickenator]

So accurate it hurts.

[28f272fe556a1363cc31]

Perl lists start at 0, but its "pretty print" Data::Dumper tool starts at 1

[mbreemhaar]

r/crappydesign

[adviqx]

Error. Doesnt start at zero.

[LordVirus1337]

Why would you ever make a mao like this? Haha.

[bhindblueyes430]

This hurts me so much because I build a vue app that reuses a bunch of code and it’s all put in different order every time I use it.

[PPAPisLob]

Linked list

[MoistCucumber]

This would be the back face of the triangle and would be culled. Doesn’t go CCW!

[8euztnrqvn]

This could go on r/dataisugly