• (nodebb)

    Such comments are a trace of pain, a scream of “this is awful” into the void.

  • (nodebb) 
    /*
 * Post a useless comment while side effecting JeremyP's blood pressure because 
 * he hates unnecessary verging of nouns.
 */

    Addendum 2022-04-07 07:49: s/verging/verbing

    Addendum 2022-04-07 07:50: s?g$?g/?

  • (nodebb)

    Thirty minutes is easy mode.

  • RussellWakely (google) in reply to dkf

    I've learnt over time to be more careful, and sanitize some of those comments of mine, as sometimes they do get read by the targets of my ire.

  • OldCoder (unregistered)

    I think I would have been happier if he had said which global variables had been affected!

  • Argle (unregistered)

    I did recently comment "// there's probably a better way to do this, but this is the tool I have at my disposal now." Not much ire in it, but bit of resignation.

  • Mild Resignation (unregistered)

    This little guy shows up in way to many of my comments. Usually in regards to some particularly nonsensical business logic that the users insisted we implement. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  • Carl Witthoft (google)

    Well sheesh, if Dewey sussed it all out, why not a bunch more comments in the code to explain each step.

    More important: is this the team of Huey, Dewey, and Louie, or is it the team Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe?

  • ZZartin (unregistered) in reply to OldCoder

    I think I would have been happier if he had said which global variables had been affected!

    bool uploadAllUserInformationToInternet;

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered) in reply to Argle

    I did recently comment "// there's probably a better way to do this, but this is the tool I have at my disposal now." Not much ire in it, but bit of resignation.

    Yeah. I wrote one of those not too long ago. I know there's a better way to do it, it's just not available in the .Net version I'm using and upgrading would take out some important stuff.

  • Prime Mover (unregistered) in reply to Carl Witthoft

    Might have been Dewey, Dan and Gerry.

  • DJ Dizzy Spudplucker (unregistered)

    While working in IBM 4680 BASIC (a P.O.S. system that's also a POS), I frequently found (and wrote) comments like "VODOO AHEAD - DO NOT ALTER"

  • MaxiTB (unregistered) in reply to DJ Dizzy Spudplucker

    POS systems are legendary bad in that regard; this is one of many reasons why I still use cash for every one-time invoice that is under 1000 Euros. I don't understand how people pay with cards in supermarkets or fast food restaurants honestly.

  • (nodebb) in reply to DJ Dizzy Spudplucker

    A cow-orker was going to edit some code I'd written years earlier that had some very subtle interactions in places, in short the code was complex in order to hide a bunch of odd corner cases from the user. He eventually came to me with some notes on suggested changes and commented "I was going to edit the code and then I saw the giant skull and crossbones at the top".

    So they worked as intended.

  • Jaloopa (unregistered) in reply to Mild Resignation

    This little guy shows up in way to many of my comments. Usually in regards to some particularly nonsensical business logic that the users insisted we implement. ¯\(ツ)/¯

    A coworker once got a bit of a telling off for commenting something along the lines of

    //The user insisted we implement this check. Incedentally, the user is a fucking moron
  • (nodebb)

    "Get the field value, stripped of accelerator key information"??? What does that even mean? What would accelerator key information do in a field's VALUE?

  • (nodebb) in reply to nyanpasu64

    Thirty minutes is easy mode

    After on some occasions spending days to figure out how the bugged part actually works I have to concur.

    Usually in several layers of "that's how it works" and "oh, there's yet another global interaction going on...".

    I hate prototyping in production code...

  • (nodebb) in reply to Jenda

    Presumably the devs working on this code will know what that means. Hopefully...

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