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The temptation is always there (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

// TODO: Fix later

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In a 10 year old commit from someone who's left the company 5 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Bruh. I fixed software from the 90's.

Scientific software too. Which is way weirder.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why is that weirder? The people writing scientific software are, by and large, less good at writing software than people who only specialize in software development. I'd expect there to tons of terrible engineering practices in an old code base like that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

good question.

Because even trivial things like Fourier transforms (to people like me) are very difficult to understand to those that don't know them. They took me years to understand. Non scientific software engineers do not understand those. It's just a different course of education.

You're also right about old code base as well. Algorithms like these belong in c++ (or C or fortran), and it's extremely difficult to explain why to people who have no understanding of numerical computing.

It's just different education.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That's like what happens if From Software made programming challenges.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Later is the name of the intern my company hired when I resigned :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wish I was so lucky to have comments.

in real life, I'm fighting with - I'm not joking - a few dozen "quick patches". code does not reflect in any point functional requirements, and dude is adamant he's in the right and supersarcastic in any occasion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I've been working at my current company for almost a year.

I had no idea it could be this bad.

I actually had to fight/plead with someone to "please read the code". Guy did get fired though.