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[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait areBooleanEqual returns false when they are equal?

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

That's not even the worst part. What the fuck does a function named Compare_anything do? Does it return anything? It sounds like nothing but a side effect.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

Usually comparison functions are supposed to return an integer and are usually useful for sorting. However this one returns a bool so it's both useless and terribly named.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The unnecessary and confusing functions are horrible, yes, but I'd still say that the fact that they're wrong is the "worst" part.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don’t forget the invocation

if (CompareBooleans(a, b) == true)
[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (2 children)

if (CompareBooleans(CompareBooleans(a, b), true))

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't like this thread anymore :(

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

elseif(CompareBooleans(b,a) != false)

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Management: Gee whiz, we really have no idea how to gauge productivity to decide who gets promoted. We could manage. Or, better, we could just have someone write a script that pulls info from git on how many lines of code each person has written.

Programmers:

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

I promote based on lines of code removed.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I quit based on idiotic metrics

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Ah, the idiotic idiotic metric metric.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Which is all the easier to do when you start off with a higher number...

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There’s no way, that’s so insane it has layers.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

At first, I thought the shitty methods were the joke 😱😱😱

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is code after working 16 hours

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd give my right hand this is a code review problem. Someone extracted a method returning true false. Then an intern came along and was told to refactor. They saw a lot of comparisons and "extracted" them.

[–] nitefox 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

My coworker made an array of book to express a status. This is no doing of an intern but a much eviler force at play.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"You aren't writing enough lines of code!" - Management

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

My boss's boss, a former Ops manager who liked to keep track of system stats, once asked her why the CPU usage on the dev box had decreased that month. Weren't the devs doing any work?

[–] Grandwolf319 30 points 4 weeks ago

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but sometimes in programming, two bugs can cancel each other out.

Whoever wrote this is more than capable of using it incorrectly.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago

Is this part of Elons "How many lines of choice have you written?" interview?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Those are rookie lines of code numbers right there.
I would have done it without the ==

internal static bool AreBooleansEqual(bool orig, bool val)
{
    if(orig) 
    {
        if(val)
            return false
        return true
    }
    if(val)
        return true 
    return false
}

Don't know why their code returns false when they are equal but I'm not going to dig through old code to refactor to use true instead of false.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

you can also use XOR operation

return (X || Y) && !(X && Y)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Put more curly brackets around your if (val) true statement for 4 more lines, put elses in there for more lines even.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

I should have created a local variable to store the result variable and return after the if statements. I just couldn't help to make it look partially nice. My brain just doesn't think at this high caliber of LOC optimizations.

New optimized LOC version:

internal static bool AreBooleansEqual(bool orig, bool val)
{
    bool result;
    if(orig) 
    {
        if(val)
        {
            result = false;
        }
        else
        {
            result = true;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        if(val)
        {
            result = true;
        }
        else
        {
            result = false;
        }
    }
    return result;
}

My previous LOC: 12
New LOC version: 27

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can tell they're amateurs. It's not obfuscated enough. They won't be able to keep their job.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They clearly need an abstract boolean comparison factory.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
var CompareBooleans = new ComparatorFactory().BooleanComparator(new BooleanComparisonByEqualityPolicy());
if (CompareBooleans(a, b) == true) {
     System.Out.PrintLn("Sames!!!");
}

...

But now that I've written this, it's C#, so it's missing dependency injection.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

I can imagine Uncle Bob be proud of this Clean Code (TM)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

I can definitely understand why they did that but it's still very funny

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My guess to why there’s two functions is because it was originally only internal, and the programmer realized they needed public as well, but changing internal to public is too scary so they created a new method instead.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"We need to obfuscate our code to prevent reverse engineering"

The obfuscation in question:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

We affectionately called it "subscurity" on the FE team.

When our BE apis would not give us any information why something failed, nor would they give us access to their logs. Complete black box of undocumented doodoo, and they would proudly say "security through obscurity" every time we asked why they couldn't make improvements to usability.

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[–] zarkanian 16 points 4 weeks ago

If this were a Node module, I wouldn't even be surprised.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Clearly it should be return orig == val

Duh

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

To match the current behavior it should be orig != val

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

I'm a bit disappointed there isn't a call to GetBooleanValue in there

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

!NOT

Who's there?

!!Naughty Knots

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Where are the unit tests?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

But how do you test for FILE_NOT_FOUND?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Straight from the famous book "Making LOCs for Dummies"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I misread it as CompareBolians. No more Star Trek memes for me today.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Thanks I hate it

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