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

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very: Jan 25, 2005; I err on the side of handsome.

Don't you know the virtue of avoid magic numbers in your code?

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# ¿ Apr 30, 2024 04:50

very: Jan 25, 2005; I err on the side of handsome.

ashgromnies posted:

Are you being sarcastic? Please please please be being sarcastic.

Haha. Yeah.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2008 18:37

very: Jan 25, 2005; I err on the side of handsome.

Bonus posted:

I see someone has been reading Schr�dinger's book on programming.

Don't worry, the software is working perfectly in another universe.

Edit: Some of my old code:

code:

static int oldscore = 999, oldlevel = 999, 
    oldblocks = 999, oldcombolevel = 999;

I hope you don't score more than 999 points.

code:

  piece = next[0];
  next[0] = next[1];
  next[1] = next[2];  
  next[2].randompiece();

And then there's this.

very fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Mar 22, 2008

# ¿ Mar 22, 2008 15:06

very: Jan 25, 2005; I err on the side of handsome.

Recently I found a

code:

if ( big long condition &&
     blah blah blah )
{
    return true;
}
else
{
    return false;
}

and started to wonder who checked that in.. and then I realized.. it was me.

But also I had to hunt down one of the senior dev's anonymous enumerations, because he thought int was a good enough data type to represent it. I should bother him about where that darn enumeration is every time I have to use his functions.

Speaking of misspelled constants, we've got one somewhere that is hilariously and obviously misspelled. I wish I could remember what it was.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2008 05:18

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