• RLB (unregistered)

    TRWTF is the tags on that StackOverflow question.

  • (nodebb)

    Frankly, TRWTF is the entire question, and the entirety of all the answers.

    The answers didn't really seem to actually answer the question, and, as written, the question was incoherent with itself (OP assigns to a and b, and then computes the difference between allStudentsArrray and presentStudentsArray, and wonders why it doesn't return the set difference between a and b...).

  • Hanzito (unregistered)

    Also a good way to track the number of readers of TDWTF. There were 751 views on that issue just now.

  • Not even AI (unregistered)

    It was, however, repeated multiple times throughout the codebase, because the entire codebase was a pile of copy-pasta glued together with the bare minimum code to make it work. In at least one place, the comment was probably correct and helpful. But it got swept up as part of a broader copy/paste exercise.

  • Or barely Human (unregistered)

    It also wasn't in a block of code that was doing anything with either lodash, Mongoose, or set differences. It was, however, repeated multiple times throughout the codebase.

  • (nodebb)

    Looking at some lodash helper methods, they're WTF, too. 🤷‍♂️🤣

  • (nodebb)

    It's nice how "commenters" helpfully copy/paste some of the article text into their comments. It's helpful for anyone who reads the comments before reading the article.

  • (nodebb) in reply to sibtrag

    Is your comment an example of Poe's Law or do we get to insult you?

  • (nodebb)

    I work in a similar codebase. I've stopped reading comments because they are almost always copy/pasted from a similar, but different piece of code. The code isn't self-documenting, either. Weeeee.

  • fa (unregistered)

    This reminds me of how genomes mutate and evolve. The useful pieces of code may get duplicated and then take on slightly different roles. Other junk that happens to be near the useful bits gets to tag along and spread too.

  • Hanzito (unregistered)

    Now the view count for that issue is 920, so that's about 170 views. Less than 500 daily dailywtf visitors?

  • (nodebb) in reply to Hanzito

    Now the view count for that issue is 920, so that's about 170 views. Less than 500 daily dailywtf visitors?

    I'd guess so as well. Both 500 front page visitors and a 33% click-through rate yields 170 visitors. Both of those numbers seem reasonable.

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