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Code Snippet Of the Day (CodeSOD) features interesting and usually incorrect code snippets taken from actual production code in a commercial and/or open source software projects.
As frequently discussed here, there are scientists who end up writing a fair bit of code, but they're not software engineers. This means that the code frequently solves the problem in front of them, it often has issues.
Nancy works in a lab with a slew of data scientists, and the code she has to handle gets… problematic.
Once upon a time, a company started a large React application. Like so many such projects, the requirements were vague and poorly understood, the management didn't have any sort of plan, and the developers didn't understand the framework. Once this inevitably started to go off the rails, all the developers were fired and then contractors were brought in, because that would be "cheaper".
Spoilers: it was not. So all the contractors were fired, and a new round of hires were brought in. This time, though, they'd correct their mistakes by strictly enforcing Scrum practices to be "agile".
The number of web applications which need to generate PDFs is too damn high, in my experience. But it's a requirement which continues to exist for a variety of reasons, so we just have to accept it.
Derek was accepting of it, at least until he found this attempt to add ten lines of space between paragraphs.
Anton has the joy of doing PHP work using one of the more popular e-commerce platforms.
Now, say what you will about PHP, its absolute mess of a root namespace has a function or class for just about everything. You want to split a string? We call that explode because that's way more radical than split. Want to join a string back together? We use implode, because that's the opposite of explode.
Aug 24