• Industrial Automation Engineer (unregistered)
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  • Hasseman (unregistered)

    The mythical man month, anybody?

  • (nodebb)

    Tired: JavaScript in PHP

    Wired: PHP in JavaScript

  • (nodebb)

    .parent().parent().parent().parent().parent()

    There's so much to hate about this.

    For once, Remy and I are 100% aligned. There are a fsckload of major WTFs here, and they do deserve unadulterated hatred.

    However, I'll point out the minor points he skipped over:

    • coder liked calling parent() so damn much he didn't bother making an intermediate variable, but did it twice
    • same for repeatedly invoking jQuery(this) --- use a variable, dammit.
    • coder is unfamiliar with the "+=" operator
    • what are the first and third tests accomplishing in (datetime && datetime != "" && datetime != null)
    • lack of { } for the ifs --- be consistent
    • doing a lot of fetching and assigning for nothing if "title" is null or empty
  • (nodebb) in reply to adamantoise

    Technically that's just php - templating is kinda it's thing since the very beginning.

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  • xtal256 (unregistered)

    "The entire project came back from the contractor in an unusable state."

    This is what I don't get about all these stories. Why would a company accept work from the contractor if it doesn't actually work? (Because they are dumb, I know. I still don't get it though)

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