Coding Horrors: You can gather all your technical debt into one easy framework!

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Clanpot Shake: Aug 10, 2006; shake shake!

Rubellavator posted:

Me: why is this test failing now? None of the test code or source code changed!

Me 6 months prior: let's test this function with today's date and a date in the future like say 6 months from now

This but literally 10 years

# ¿ Aug 1, 2018 21:24

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 09:00

Clanpot Shake: Aug 10, 2006; shake shake!

Next time you're in traffic court try to convince the judge he's presiding over an admiralty court on account of the fringes on the US flag in the room and therefore has no authority over you.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2018 13:30

Clanpot Shake: Aug 10, 2006; shake shake!

DONT THREAD ON ME posted:

Sometimes i want to make a thread where we record ourselves saying computer terms that we've only ever said in our head.

Nih-Gin-Ix
hard G

# ¿ Jan 24, 2019 22:23

Clanpot Shake: Aug 10, 2006; shake shake!

Nude posted:

Is it too much to ask what's so horrific bout blockchain? Apologies in advance if so.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/replace-blockchain-with-s/johdgapbhomlhcflancninpeafocpopn?hl=en-US&gl=US

# ¿ Feb 28, 2019 15:01

Clanpot Shake: Aug 10, 2006; shake shake!

poemdexter posted:

My coworker has an immutability stick shoved so far up his rear end that in order to change a field on any object, a new object needs to be created first. I blame lombok for allowing him to do this with annotations instead of having to manually write out all this bullshit code. Let me tell you how fun it is to debug code when you can't watch anything.

Sounds like you're getting the worst of both worlds. Having no mutable state in your application is extremely cool and good and makes debugging a breeze.

# ¿ May 31, 2019 16:29

Clanpot Shake: Aug 10, 2006; shake shake!

Jazerus posted:

one day he'll destroy it all and every node program on the planet will collapse simultaneously

That already happened

# ¿ Jun 19, 2019 11:40

Clanpot Shake: Aug 10, 2006; shake shake!

I've had to learn Spring recently and a lot of it boils down to "oh just add the @Magic annotation that you have to just know about." I was having compilation issues when I realized that the framework is so opinionated that it matters what you name things.

We're not even building anything complicated, just dumb REST apps.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 01:06

Clanpot Shake: Aug 10, 2006; shake shake!

Xarn posted:

Magic comments are literally lovely magic. Go has never found lovely idea it didn't like, so of course it is full of them.
Go code:
//go:build exclude
This tells go to exclude this file from build. I sure hope you won't typo something, like say, add a space somewhere it should go.

Same for magic function names.
Go code:
func TestThisIsATest(t *testing.T) {}
func TestthisIsNotATest(t *testing.T) {}
func TesTthisIsNotATestEitherAHAHAHAHAHAHAFUCKYOU(t *testing.T) {}

My favorite golang lovely idea is the magic date you use for date formatting. They could have used an unambiguous date like December 31st, but because it was created by techbros who can't see past their own nose you have to remember whether it's January 2nd or February 1st.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 15:11

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 09:00

Clanpot Shake: Aug 10, 2006; shake shake!

Default parameters in Python might qualify? It's more "surprising" than "magical," but it trips people up.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 20:50

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