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

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Mesothelioma: Jan 6, 2009; Your favorite mineral related cancer!

There is so much wrong with that chunk of code I don't even know where to begin. Who wrote that?

# ¿ Mar 12, 2012 13:33

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# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 18:55

Mesothelioma: Jan 6, 2009; Your favorite mineral related cancer!

I"m a pretty new programmer, but couldn't poor design be a reason why minecraft runs like garbage? I don't think notch ever expected to add this many features to his game in the first place.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2012 03:54

Mesothelioma: Jan 6, 2009; Your favorite mineral related cancer!

I'm really curious to see how the port of minecraft to the 360 will run.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2012 07:41

Mesothelioma: Jan 6, 2009; Your favorite mineral related cancer!

I just found out that changing the screen orientation on android closes the app. Welp

# ¿ Sep 26, 2012 00:55

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bucketmouse posted:

I did a very bad thing today. This is in response (revenge?) to a person wanting me to write him a shell that uses fork() for Totally Not A School Assignment.

Why did you write this?

# ¿ Oct 27, 2012 05:43

Mesothelioma: Jan 6, 2009; Your favorite mineral related cancer!

Every time I look at my buddy's methods he ALWAYS returns the object Boolean instead of a regular boolean. When I ask him why he uses the object instead of the primitive he stares blankly at me.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2012 20:51

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# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 18:55

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Optimus Prime Ribs posted:

On different forums I post on I convinced another dude to learn Python, and as an exercise to help him learn he wrote a function for determining if a given number is prime.
That's all well and good, but the solution he came up with is something else:
Python code:
def isPrime(num):
        primeCount = 0
        notPrimeCount = 0
        prime = 0
        for i in range(2,num - 1):
                if num % i == 0:
                        notPrimeCount += 1
                if num % i != 0:
                        primeCount += 1
 
        if notPrimeCount == 0:
                prime = "Prime"
        else:
                prime = "Not Prime"
 
        return prime
 
print isPrime(4)
I get that the guy is still learning Python, but Jesus Christ, how the hell do people think like this?
It's even worse because the guy is apparently employed as a programmer somewhere (according to him, that is).

Why not just link him to code academy?

# ¿ Jan 2, 2013 06:02

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