Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
I once had someone tell me to my face that comments were a code smell.
āyor mums a code smellā
Iāve found that people who talk about ācode smellā generally should not be listened to as itās entirely vibes-based-on-the-last-medium-post-i-read-this-morning. I had a dipshit manager tell me that he didnāt like my use of decorators (in python mind you) because it was a ācode smellā and recommended I read ācleanā code, and I immediately threw every other opinion he had in the trash.
Managers gonna manage, but having a term for bad code that works that is more palatable than āamateur hourā isnāt inherently bad imo.
Worst iāve heard is some company forbidding LINQ in C#, which in python terms is forcing you to always use for-loops in place of filter/map/reduce and comprehensions and other stuff like pandas.groupby
thatās truly assenine as LINQ is supposed to be one of the few reasons to want to use C#
Depends on how they are used. They are extremely useful when they add context that is otherwise not present in the code, but way too often I see people simply restating what the code does in the comment. Thatās not very useful and can become confusing if the code later gets updated without updating the associated comment.
this seems counterintuitive butā¦ comments are the best, name of the function but longer are the worst. Plain text summary of a huge chunk of code that I really should have taken the time to break up instead of writing a novella about it are somewhere in the middle.
I feel a lot of bad comment practices are downstream of javascript relying on jsdoc to act like a real language.