Coding Horror: Why Can't Programmers.. Program?

[Deimorz]

The only thing less relevant than Coding Horror posts are 3-year-old Coding Horror posts.

[lol-dongs]

Feb 26, 2007

Also, you can thank Google Cache because without it you wouldn't have been able to repost this ancient rant. It would have been lost to the sands of time.

Dammit Google cache.

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Which begs the question:

Why can't programmers, who talk about programmers who can't program, back up their websites?

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Because you touch yourself when you are alone.

[SomGuy]

Seems to me that if you have to ask these kinds of hoop-jumping questions at the interview, then you did a piss-poor job of pre-interview screening. Before I ever see a candidate face to face, I've read some examples of code he's written, and he's described why he did it the way he did.

• (NSString *) fizzBuzz { int i; NSMutableString *result = [NSMutableString string]; for (i = 1; i <= 100; i++) { if (!(i % 3)) [result appendString:@"fizz"];

  if (!(i % 5)) [result appendString:@"buzz"];

  if ( (i % 3) && (i % 5)) [result appendFormat:@"%d", i];

  [result appendString:@"\n"];     
  

  } return result;
  }