My professor once asked me about a comment that said "// This is awful and you should feel awful, change this before handing it in. " I had no excuse, I just told him time makes fools of us all.
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I had no excuse, I just told him time makes fools of us all.
For that quip, they should've just christened you a developer and handed over your diploma right there.
Possibly with some yogurt
Should always slap a TODO on the front. IDEs like Jetbrain will catch those for you, so you can willfully ignore them next time(s).
Ideally with a ticket number, so you have some place with all the details and it can be prioritized and scheduled later, or never
//TODO go through my comments and add the TODO flag
//TODO ABC-1234 properly record tech debt
willfully ignore them next time(s).
That's a mood.
This is the difference between academia and actual experience. Senior engineer wouldn't bat an eye for such comment
That's basically what I was told. It worked, I explained the algorithm I was having trouble with, and that I just ran out of time. He didn't deduct any marks or anything, he just said I should make an effort to make comments less self-deprecating.
I should make an effort to make comments less self-deprecating.
Weird, that's what my therapist keeps telling me too. j/k, I can't afford it or be bothered to go
There is nothing honorable here. This code is best avoided. We are not proud of what we have done.
I once left a comment that said
// To whomever inherits this project, I'm sorry about the following code. They made me do it.
Over at invisible-island.net:
Part of why xterm's internals are so horrifying is that it was originally intended that a single process be able to drive multiple VS100 displays. Don't hold this against Mark; it isn't his fault.
And startx:
# This is just a sample implementation of a slightly less primitive interface than xinit.
# …
# Site administrators are STRONGLY urged to write nicer versions.
Found deep in the Linux networking code years ago: // this code is too ugly to live, but I don’t have time right now
This code is repulsive to us.
This comment is a warning about dangerous code.
this is proof that if you read that in 10000 years, you would have no clue what to do.. and will probably dig to be sure