• becausechemistry@lemm.eeEnglish
    33·
    2 days ago

    Management: Gee whiz, we really have no idea how to gauge productivity to decide who gets promoted. We could manage. Or, better, we could just have someone write a script that pulls info from git on how many lines of code each person has written.

    Programmers:

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    2 days ago

    Two wrongs don’t make a right, but sometimes in programming, two bugs can cancel each other out.

    Whoever wrote this is more than capable of using it incorrectly.

    • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      2 days ago

      I’d give my right hand this is a code review problem. Someone extracted a method returning true false. Then an intern came along and was told to refactor. They saw a lot of comparisons and “extracted” them.

  • Acters@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    Those are rookie lines of code numbers right there.
    I would have done it without the ==

    internal static bool AreBooleansEqual(bool orig, bool val)
{
    if(orig) 
    {
        if(val)
            return false
        return true
    }
    if(val)
        return true 
    return false
}

    Don’t know why their code returns false when they are equal but I’m not going to dig through old code to refactor to use true instead of false.

    • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Put more curly brackets around your if (val) true statement for 4 more lines, put elses in there for more lines even.

      • Acters@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        I should have created a local variable to store the result variable and return after the if statements. I just couldn’t help to make it look partially nice. My brain just doesn’t think at this high caliber of LOC optimizations.

        New optimized LOC version:

        internal static bool AreBooleansEqual(bool orig, bool val)
{
    bool result;
    if(orig) 
    {
        if(val)
        {
            result = false;
        }
        else
        {
            result = true;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        if(val)
        {
            result = true;
        }
        else
        {
            result = false;
        }
    }
    return result;
}

        My previous LOC: 12
        New LOC version: 27

      • Acters@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I was debating on bitwise operations, but decided on super basic if statements which I think the compiler would optimize, happy to see the logical operation form too

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    You can tell they’re amateurs. It’s not obfuscated enough. They won’t be able to keep their job.

      • marcos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        2 days ago
        var CompareBooleans = new ComparatorFactory().BooleanComparator(new BooleanComparisonByEqualityPolicy());
if (CompareBooleans(a, b) == true) {
     System.Out.PrintLn("Sames!!!");
}

        …

        But now that I’ve written this, it’s C#, so it’s missing dependency injection.

  • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
    17·
    2 days ago

    My guess to why there’s two functions is because it was originally only internal, and the programmer realized they needed public as well, but changing internal to public is too scary so they created a new method instead.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    “We need to obfuscate our code to prevent reverse engineering”

    The obfuscation in question:

    • Wrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      We affectionately called it “subscurity” on the FE team.

      When our BE apis would not give us any information why something failed, nor would they give us access to their logs. Complete black box of undocumented doodoo, and they would proudly say “security through obscurity” every time we asked why they couldn’t make improvements to usability.

      • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        You must have been working with the Redditors who told me that avoiding the use of JavaScript’s eval() to parse JSON was a false sense of security.