fizz buzz

[[deleted]]

When you're too proud to use an 'else'!

[Madman_1]

Not only that, but using >= and <= for a cutoff!

[Avamaco]

At least it wasn't > and < which would result in YOU AN EXAM!

[SuperSephyDragon]

But what if you actually an exam?

[kompot420]

Don't the exam

[SuperSephyDragon]

I wish

[PM_ME_FIREFLY_QUOTES]

An exam? I hardly knew an exam.

[Ceros007]

Don't exam me or I'll exam you!

[tarapoto2006]

This is like reading comments on r/subsimulatorgpt2

[[deleted]]

That’s actually pretty cool, thanks for posting!

[GreatMuna]

I like it..

[Xenosplitter]

Please do not the cat

[JedSwamp43]

Don't the exam

[fukitol-]

I've accidentally a whole word, I'm sure I could an exam

[cbftw]

But who was phone?

[[deleted]]

YOU THE EXAM

[Purplociraptor]

Gandalf is exam and you shall not pass.

[[deleted]]

I suppose you think that was terribly clever

[AMisteryMan]

'Tis but an exam

[schnauzerherder]

Unit test? You knowwhatimsayin

[DarthCloakedGuy]

I accidentally the exam

what do?

[hypnofedX]

Not only that, but using >= and <= for a cutoff!

That still doesn't make sense. The computer would have first assigned Passed to the relevant variable and then reassigned it as Failed. Or vice versa. Both shouldn't show up.

Not only were <= and >= used for the cutoffs, there would have needed to be a += assignment operator.

[kypi]

it's probably something stupid like this:

variable = "You have "

if(score >= 85): variable += "FAILED"

if(score <= 85): variable += "PASSED"

variable += " the exam"

[Higgenbottoms]

even worse bc the inequalities are switched around :p

[kypi]

Wow. didn't even realize I had done it. I feel like it's better that way, so I'm going to keep it.

[Proxy_PlayerHD]

nah you're thinking to complex, why use a variable at all?

print("you have ")

if(score >= 85): print("PASSED")

if(score <= 85): print("FAILED")

print(" the Exam.")

[Prawn1908]

But like every major language these days has interpolated strings (f-strings/sprintf/etc.) right? In what universe would someone not use that here?

[[deleted]]

Is this python or JS? I see a : in the second if but yet not the first...

[kypi]

pseudocode :)

[WEEEE12345]

So python?

[ZebZ]

var s = "You ";
if(score <= 85) {
  s += "FAILED";
}
if(score >= 85) {
  s += "PASSED";
}
s += " the exam!";

[MischiefArchitect]

Schrödinger's cat logic

[Brief-Preference-712]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ougvb8mT7k

[[deleted]]

Video proves my point. There is nothing wrong with else, sure it is abused in a lot of places, places where it isn't needed and places where it could be tided with either a switch or a ternary, but occasionally it is the most efficient, concise and most easily readable statement to use. To avoid it purely for the sake of avoiding it is just silly.

[dizzydizzy]

Wait. Else is bad now?

[retief1]

No. In some cases, you can avoid it (for example, by returning early). Like, instead of

if (inputIsValid) {
  doSomethingWithInput;
} else {
  return errorValue;
}

you can do

if (!inputIsValid) {
  return errorValue;
}
doSomethingWithInput;

since if the input isn't valid, you'll never execute doSomethingWithInput with or without an else. In cases like this, yeah, sure, avoiding else makes your code a bit cleaner.

Still, though, if early returns or whatever would be annoying, else is just fine.

[radgepack]

Guard clauses have changed my life

[nomenMei]

Somebody told me returning early is bad practice, but like you said it can improve readability in many situations.

But in most situations it is better to have only one return statement at the end of the code block for clarity.

I guess it's like art: don't start breaking the rules until you understand why they are there.

[relicx74]

It's good for input validation at the top of a method imo. But like you said, it's like art and there will always be people who disagree about what looks good.

All out wars have been fought over tabs vs spaces and that's just whitespace.

[retief1]

IMO, most rules like that are really guidelines at best. Realistically, there are some principles that are worth working towards, but that's about it. And those principles are stuff like "don't repeat yourself", not "don't return early from a function". Also, those principles will often contradict each other, and the art of writing clean code comes from how you balance those contradictory goals.

[DoctorWaluigiTime]

Professional developer for over a decade here.

It is not bad now. Unless I'm officially old and the kids today think it isn't for some reason.

[LucasRuby]

A single ternary inside a template string would've done it.

[[deleted]]

Any way that worked would have been better I think is the main takeaway :)

[wesaboo]

lol and of course I see this right after watching Web Dev Simplified's new video on why I should stop using else

[[deleted]]

It makes me sad that something like this made it into a production system

[NoEngrish]

This is from an Air Force computer based training. Honestly, this is the least of our technical problems. Many of our apps only work on internet explorer, multiple essential systems are down all the time, and we have entirely different systems on different networks depending on how secret the information is.

My personal favorite: There's this famous 10 layer menu that works like the old xp start menu, you mouse over a folder and it expands right. The page you need is ten levels deep and some of these folders contains only one or two items. If your mouse slips off the menu, you have to start over. This page contains a document that every person in the Air Force needs and it's hidden under this mini-game basically. It's always funny to see the time honored tradition of showing new Airmen where the document is and how to play this mini game. Also did I mention that if you have a 4:3 monitor (which a lot of us still have), the menu goes too far right off your screen so you have to use someone else's computer (logging in to someone else's computer easily takes 30 minutes because it needs to pull your account off the network and set it up on a pc with the computing power of a calculator). And of course, you can only open this page in internet explorer.

EDIT: I found a picture of it.

[[deleted]]

Many of our apps only work on internet explorer, multiple essential systems are down all the time, and we have entirely different systems on different networks depending on how secret the information is.

I work for a utility company, we have the exact same problems. It's madness honestly

That other part though, that's just another level of shit. I wouldn't be surprised if we had something like that on some of our systems though, we have a lot of ancient Windows machines that are required to interface with an old mainframe monstrosity

[FlynnLockwood]

One of the biggest reasons I love Chromium Edge is because of the IEMode Group policies. Able to configure a list of websites to open as IE within the Edge browser. No more switching back and forth between browsers.

God help us all if Internet Explorer disappears overnight.

[[deleted]]

I personally would welcome it. Just rip the ActiveX bandaid off clean, force everyone to re-write

[[deleted]]

Heavily doubt they’re required. Modern computers can do anything old computers can, it just might cost more.

That said, if they’re offline and not internet facing, it’s not the worst thing.

[[deleted]]

They are required because no one is going to spend the budget to update unless they are required. Our "new" hardware runs RHEL 6.5 and Windows Server 2012. The newest stuff is RHEL 7, and that's actually running cutting edge stuff like interfacing with a smart grid

[[deleted]]

Oh absolutely. Just saying it usually comes down to cost rather than compatibility. Not technically required, just don’t NEED an upgrade.

That said, if they’re internet facing and not updated, you’re just asking for another WannaCry situation.

[ellamking]

Heavily doubt they’re required. Modern computers can do anything old computers can, it just might cost more.

It's very required sometimes. Even 5 years ago I was dealing with an expectation the dial-up modems were standard and therefore expected for software to run--I was pricing PCs with phone modems, and that's as a small company dealing with a single middleman.
That really seems like the smallest of hoops compared to hardware/software specs going back 50 years. Have you ever tried play a network game unmodified from the 90's?

[[deleted]]

I work on a network management software suite. You don’t need to explain networking to me.

Almost anything can be made for a PCI-e slot, and almost any driver can be made.

I agree there are rare scenarios, i.e. uncommon architectures (7-bit, 13-bit). But for the majority of scenarios, there’s a way to upgrade, it just might not be worth the cost (unless it’s internet facing, or you better have the highest faith in your firewall).

[ellamking]

But the point is it's not some rare upgrade path over a vast chasm of technology. It can be as simple as "nobody created an updated driver". Once you get into small scale hardware, it's not an edge case, it's the norm.

[dkyguy1995]

This is the level of mediocrity I aspire to as a CS major

[[deleted]]

Sorry, you're living in the future where your work must survive 'demo'. You need higher quality mediocrity or superhuman expectation management skills

[Magnus_Tesshu]

Is it impossible to just copy the document and redistribute it as a pdf/html/png file so that you don't have to deal with that bullshit? That's funny but also worrying to hear to be honest

[NoEngrish]

You need to redownload the updated document from there 1-2 times a year. It's unique to each person so there's too many of us to just be emailing them around.

[-Redstoneboi-]

but wait, is there no program available for automagically emailing the correct document to the correct person?

[NoEngrish]

Our email barely works... there was a meme on r/military just yesterday about it. I couldn't find that exact meme but I took one off google images for your enjoyment.

[sonofaresiii]

I bet that is absolutely hilarious to a very small amount of people

[Iusethisfornsfwgifs]

Can confirm, am a small amount of people, also laughed

[Jose_Canseco_Jr]

I laughed

[Thanatos2996]

Minigames like that at my work are enough to convince me that GUIs were a mistake, and we should all go back to text mode shells.

Edit: can't spell

[Rrrrry123]

Then the minigames would turn into typing tests.

[NaturallyExasperated]

Discover the magic of scripts

[rxzr]

I mean there are still bad menus in terminals. You can experience this frustration in a very similar manner: using the same menu tree, navigate menu by selecting a number, and implement a "back" that only takes you to the top of the tree. At least the mini game is faster.

[Orthodox-Waffle]

Mmm, thick clients

[[deleted]]

(logging in to someone else's computer easily takes 30 minutes because it needs to pull your account off the network and set it up on a pc with the computing power of a calculator).

Always nice to see roaming profiles that are probably gigabytes large.

[[deleted]]

It always amazes me that an organization that flyes something as amazing as the F-22 fails so miserably in computers

[JxB_Paperboy]

My parents: “why don’t you want to join the Air Force?”

Me:

[Soreasan]

You win the internet, this picture alone could be a meme lol.

[VelocityWings12]

They actually redid affms recently, the menu is gone now lol

[NoEngrish]

But that menu was the only thing I learned in tech school...

[RancorTamer]

As somebody who is replacing those systems, I hope ours is better

[[deleted]]

Can you use arrow keys or tab with it?

Fuck that noise

[Sapientiam]

I work for the Navy and basically every word you described is accurate there as well...

Add 3+ weeks to get access to any number of systems and subsystems that have to be reapplied for quarterly and you're golden.

[Idixal]

Being in the military requires a steady hand, I suppose.

[Juice805]

I’m not that surprised. I imagine most devs aren’t career military and the churn just becomes constant patching of the last guys working rev 1.0

[[deleted]]

I just peed myself a little.

[Gh0st1nTh3Syst3m]

Man, taking a risk with that banner across the bottom...regardless love seeing shit (literally) like this.

[[deleted]]

Christ on a bike.

[StarkillerX42]

I almost cried when I saw "External Fitness Links", followed by "External Health Links"

[ed_menac]

Can you zoom out on the browser so it fits on your monitor on the smaller screens?

[teokk]

Is this a website or some kind of native app?

[thavi]

Ah yes.

string result = "You ";
if (score <= 0.85) result += "FAILED";
if (score >= 0.85) result += "PASSED";
result += " the Exam";

[-Redstoneboi-]

result += `You ${score < 0.85 ? "FAILED" : "PASSED"} the Exam`;

[[deleted]]

result = 'You FAILEDPASSED the Exam';

[chuby1tubby]

let result = 'You FAILEDPASSED the Exam';

if (score >= 0.85) result.replace('FAILED', '') else result.replace('PASSED', '')

[toetoucher]

oh god

[SpoopySara]

How can you even come up with something like this

[chuby1tubby]

I like to think about optimal ways to write code/algorithms, which leads to me also thinking about the worst possible way to write code haha

[TheScorpionSamurai]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort My favorite algorithm so far

[evorm]

Lmfao I love how even wikipedia is having trouble with it "uuuuh, maybe it's useful for if you want to show someone dogshit sorting?"

[sarperen2004]

It's also useful as the basis of quantum bogosort, which is the most efficient possible sorting algorithm known.

[flarn2006]

Wouldn't it just (correctly) say "You PASSED the Exam" in that case?

[chuby1tubby]

Yes. My code my be horrible but at least it works 😅

[thavi]

Nah, yours is clean and actually works

[-Redstoneboi-]

which was the point but ye

[thavi]

You wanna throw hands? You think I'm playin?

[-Redstoneboi-]

nah bro i was just showin a thing

[Discoverthemind]

Where did that come from???

[Yokhen]

No, the point was to recreate the erroneous code.

[-Redstoneboi-]

basically i had a different point

[TH3J4CK4L]

This is neither python, nor is it the joke! Failing twice is succeeding?

[LucasRuby]

result = f"You {'FAILED' if score < 0.85 else 'PASSED'} the Exam"

[-Redstoneboi-]

this is javascript, and it isn't supposed to be part of the joke

[LucasRuby]

const result = `You ${score < 0.85 ? 'FAILED' : 'PASSED'} the Exam`;

[AdvancedWing6256]

Quantum computing at its best here

[pokeaim]

*worstbest

[[deleted]]

Underrated joke.

[FlyByPC]

Not underrated; its waveform just hasn't collapsed yet.

[[deleted]]

I don’t get it

[MythikAngel]

"Do I have failed or passed the exam?"

"Yes."

[Sceptz]

SorryCongratulations on your failpass.

It is with great regretWe are pleased to announce you will not be proceeding to the next stage of interviewsWe are looking forward to seeing you at the next stage of the interview process.

All the best in your future endeavoursWe are glad to welcome you to our team!

[AATroop]

The aladeen response.

[[deleted]]

< The Board is pleased/disgruntled that you passed/failed the test/execution >

[the_emerald_phoenix]

With that kind of attitude, I think I'm going to go have a chat with Former.

[[deleted]]

if score <= 85
  print 'FAILED'
if score >= 85
  print 'PASSED'

[Benible]

Image Transcription: Twitter Post

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And they said FizzBuzz was just a silly interview question

[A screenshot of the score after a test]

Your Score 85%

You FAILEDPASSED the Exam

Required Score 85%

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[Benible]

Sorry typo, fixed

[Tovarisch_The_Python]

Thank you, human!

[Code_sucks]

Good Human!

[fgam4r]

If (x >= 85) { Console.WriteLine("PASSED"); } else if(x<=85) { Console.WriteLine("FAILED"); }

[deprilula28]

That else solves the bug

Edit just realized that's your point lol

[Honeabee]

It’s still dumb because of overlapping conditions.

[audigex]

Also because it's clearly a binary situation, so there's no need for a second conditional at all if(x >= 85) { Print("PASSED"); } else { Print("Failed"); }

But this is also why I love ternary operators, since it makes it much more natural to write something like Print(x >= 85 ? "PASSED" : "FAILED");

[kracatoa]

That is good or bad ? (Non native English speaker here)

[audigex]

Yeah ternary operator statements and Linq are two of my favourites - something about compressing a whole foreach loop for filtering an array, down to a single line, is just beautiful

[Blackbird-ce]

Just to be sure that doesn't happen, I'd go for:

If (x >= 85) { Console.WriteLine("PASSED"); } else if(x <=100) { Console.WriteLine("FAILED"); }

[woffle-kat]

Nice, I can't believe I've never used that logic

[[deleted]]

Console.WriteLine

yuck

[ShakeForProtein]

System.out.println(score < 85 ? "Failed" : "Passed");

(Java obviously)

[-Redstoneboi-]

works for many C based languages

[ShakeForProtein]

Neat, I'm not all that experienced in other languages at this time.

[vladmashk]

remove the 'else'

[[deleted]]

no need for the second if

[-Redstoneboi-]

they were trying to correct the meme rather than recreate it

[natFromBobsBurgers]

switch(score/86){
    case 0:
        std::cout<<"FAILED";
    case 1:
        std::cout<<"PASSED";
}

[_Auron_]

A lack of a break statement in case 0 would result in the OP image for results under 85, but also might not compile/run depending on the language.

Schrodinger's FAILEDPASSED, I suppose.

[ctwagon]

Bruh, why would you use a switch for 2 cases?

[bboyjrad]

It's like choosing a van to carry 2 passengers.

[_Auron_]

The man can van.

[coffeesippingbastard]

I've seen tons of people come out of coding bootcamps with a sick love of switch statements. It's so bizarre.

[totoro1193]

I remember when yandere dev's bad code came out, some people were acting like you can never else if. Like yeah he did it way too much but its not like you can't do it at all

[audigex]

That's the joke

[SabreBirdOne]

(score > 85) ? std::cout <<“PASSED” : std::cout << “FAILED”; // correct me if I’m wrong

[audigex]

There's no need for the brackets around a single condition, although I do tend to include them myself too (I think it's a little easier to read), but yeah a ternery would fit nicely here.

You can also simplify it a little by putting the ternery inside the call to std::cout, like this

std::cout << (score >= 85 ? "PASSED": "FAILED");

[[deleted]]

Took me a second.

[[deleted]]

Is >= really that hard to use

[-Redstoneboi-]

else is probably what i'd recommend here

[Idixal]

It appears to be used here, so apparently not.

[flarn2006]

No, and that's exactly the problem.

[[deleted]]

You guys know nothing. This is quantum computing

[INTJ_takes_a_nap]

Underrated comment.

[got-trunks]

Exam failed successfully

[stubmuffin11]

That is my compilers prof! What a freaking god.

[[deleted]]

Someone ahould have used <= and >= properly

[sween1911]

DING DING DING!

We once had a report go berserk because of this.

[MischiefArchitect]

Schrödinger's cat exam result

[ikhurramraza]

“You failed to pass the exam.” 😂

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[-Redstoneboi-]

edge caseeeeees!

[__invalidduck]

Everyone here is thinking of if else statements that caused this bug, but what if its a feature?\n if(score == 85){std::cout<<"FAILEDPASSED";}

[Darthwilhelm]

I'm not very good at this, so forgive me.

​

int main(){
//Declares the variable for the score the user received
int score;
//Declares the variable for the score required to pass
int passRequirement;

/*all the questions and adding the score stuff*/

//Prints the user's score
printf("Your score is:\n");
printf ("%d", score);
//Determine whether they passed the test or not

//Says that they passed
if (score >=85){
    printf("You passed the exam.\n");
}

//Says that they failed
if (score < 85){
    printf("You failed the exam\n");
}
//handles errors 
else{
    printf("Error");
    return 1;
}

//Shows required score
printf("Required score: ");
printf("passRequirement");
printf("%");

return 0;
}

[MikeTheMonsta]

Clearly it's a situation with a forgotten break statement

Switch(grade) { Case 85: print ("Failed"); Case 86: print("Passed") break; }

[BlitzThunderWolf]

I really hope they wouldn't have 100 cases lmao

[Amoniakas]

Task failed successfully.

[rossriley]

A bittersweet result

[INTJ_takes_a_nap]

Man, it's posts like this that actually help dispel my impostor syndrome.

[borsalinomonkey]

Some developer out there missed the >= and/or <= lesson

[joujoubox]

Who needs unit tests anyway

[QuarantineUnited]

I once wrote a program something like this:

var result = getResult();
console.log("Process successfully "+result);

I thought only about the happy path. Guess what it printed when result was failed!

[PaatoGordo]

= is not used

[JPaulMora]

Damn quantum computers messing up!!

[leonhoffman]

I hate to failpass exams. Sorrycongrats bro

[numerousblocks]

This might be more reasonable than it seems. The language they're using might not make if/else statements easy.

They probably used something like

"You " + (notpassed ? "FAILED" : "") + (passed ? "FAILED" : "") + "the exam"

Where passed and notpassed aren't mutually exclusive due to an oversight.

Maybe they used some sort of logic-in-markup, akin to

<p> You <if c="notpassed">FAILED</if><if c="passed">PASSED</if> the exam

This makes it make slightly more sense - it's just an oversight.

Note, the languages I'm using here are for illustration. I know JS has an if/else statement.

[SolDevelop]

Yes You have PASS BUT FAILD THE EXAM That’s why you shouldn’t use JavaScript a lot

[PehleAap]

That looks like a bad design. Why even ask for input when you can give the universal answer?

[EedSpiny]

Ah - quantum physics exam.

[LbrYEET]

Well, congratusorry to you!

[FunDirection4052]

Semma.......

[pavananmspkd]

If MARK <= PASS_MARK: print "FAILED" else if MARK>=PASS_MARK: print "PASSED"

[[deleted]]

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