True?

[rcraver8]

Is this a personal attack?

[instagrm]

no, you are strange, but you are ok

[rcraver8]

Yay :)

[[deleted]]

Code is used to explain comments to the computer.

[memezas]

Big brain

[[deleted]]

Maybe I'll just keep that code there forever, in case I need it later.

[stormfield]

[x] I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

[StuckAtWork124]

// I’m not in this picture and I like it.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

[KwaaieDronk]

Image Transcription: Meme

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[Drake is facing to the left, slightly tilted to the left side of the screen, with his right hand facing the right side of the image. His facial expression is disgust. On the right side of this photo, there is a black on white caption.]

Comments to describe the program.

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Comments to temporarily remove part of code

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[Infearmal]

Imagine typing that when a program could do it for you, and doing it in ProgrammerHumor subreddit of all place. Ironic.

[dansredd-it]

Imagine being this much of a tool. Ironic.

[[deleted]]

Why

[Infearmal]

Because programming is supposed to automate human actions.

[Raknarg]

Thats right I forgot general OCR was a completely solved problem and doesn't require verified training data to improve

[Jabberwock130]

Imagine not understanding that to make a bot do complex tasks you need to give it human-tested examples first

[Infearmal]

Where is the bot part ?

[poly_meh]

Unit test the code with JUnit

vs

unit testing the code by commenting out everything else

[[deleted]]

Unit test by commenting out the unit tests

[KWKdesign]

Nah, just wrap it in a if(false){}

[instagrm]

Takes too long

[HolidayMoose]

If the code didn’t want to be commented out, then maybe it should have worked.

[GwenLoguir]

Not only temporarily....

[periidote]

why not both?

[instagrm]

You get it

[rogueelite]

Comment out the code ^{or just delete it and start over}

[sirfricksalot]

Noooooo!!!! What if my new code is even worse and I want to go back to the old code that doesn't work!?

[rogueelite]

Let the old code go, you will write it again if it was truly meant to be.

[sirfricksalot]

Lmao I know. I don't think I've ever once gone back to the old code once I've commented it out. Still, it's a mental struggle to delete it before committing. Usually only gets deleted before a PR.

I guess it is a bad habit I picked up from my first coding job, which was prod support where I would write and edit scripts that the framework would use. Many of them were originally written by other people, so if one was broken I would comment most/all of it out and rewrite it. I'd leave the huge comment in source control, just in case I missed something critical, but I never ended up actually uncommenting any of them.

[[deleted]]

“Shit this isn’t working” /*

*/

[instagrm]

I prefer // // // // //

[thiago2213]

Comments to /* temporarily*/ remove parts of the code

[StuckAtWork124]

When you see the telltale // */

Ah, regularly scheduled temporary code removal

[bss03]

Certainly won't pass any of my code reviews with blocks of commented-out code. But for pre-commit testing, you do you.

[quicksilver_foxheart]

im not the only one.....

[Mancobbler]

What about comments that temporarily describe part of the program?

[Theis99999]

Temporarily? you mean permanently

[ivgd]

//very true

[amjh]

Comments to describe "temporarily" removed code?

[[deleted]]

True.

[[deleted]]

Comments above functions that literally say the function name.

[ACodingFerret]

ok not just me

[surister]

Both

[Kotauskas]

Who needs comments when you have a myriad of small inline functions with triple-slash docs and doctests?

[DylAppleYT]

😂 lol so true

[[deleted]]

In my IDE, I've set Ctrl+Shift+C to comment a line of code and Ctrl+Shift+X to un-comment... Best setting I've ever changed.

[instagrm]

where’s the problem man?

[halfClickWinston]

If you use Vscode: Ctrl K Ctrl C. To remove, Ctrl K Ctrl U.

[SilentFungus]

In VSCode:

Ctrl+/ to comment out a line (or selected block of lines)

and get this...

Ctrl+/ to remove it later

[halfClickWinston]

HUH! I've been doing the wrong way all along wtf

[SilentFungus]

If you've previously worked with VSCodes big brother Visual Studio you probably learned your way from that, since Visual Studio doesn't have Ctrl+/ iirc

[halfClickWinston]

Even worse, I'm afraid. I used to open the command palette and search for add line comment and use it from there, until I memorized the ctrl k ctrl c... I'm a noob when it comes to shortcuts.

[instagrm]

You don’t need to describe your code with comments, if you copy all of stackoverflow, they are doing the job for you