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Geek Culture / A very interesting article about how to programming or not! (everyone should read this)

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Giff
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 15:08
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I found this on a PHP RSS feed earlier today and found it really funny.

Everyone should read and for those that do any of the things explained in the article, its time you changed!!!!!

http://thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html

Giff

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Mnemonix
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 15:10
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Hahaha. This is hilarious

Quote: "When To Use Exceptions
Use exceptions for non-exceptional conditions. Routinely terminate loops with an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. Pass return standard results from a method in an exception."


I love that one.

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John Y
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 15:32
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Wow, that is one long document. I started to read it properly until I saw the length; what I did read was all interesting stuff. It is perfectly serious if you just reverese what they say


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Hawkeye
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 16:03
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Wow... someone has too much freetime on their hands


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Me!
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Posted: 24th Nov 2005 19:53
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sounds like the MS developer guidelines to me , they have been making OS`s like that for years.



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Phaelax
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Posted: 25th Nov 2005 19:24
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i read that on slashdot. reminds me of a lot of students i saw in classes.


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JoelJ
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Posted: 25th Nov 2005 21:05 Edited at: 25th Nov 2005 21:05
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Quote: "
total += array[j+0];
total += array[j+1];
total += array[j+2]; /* Main body of
total += array[j+3]; * loop is unrolled
total += array[j+4]; * for greater speed.
total += array[j+5]; */
total += array[j+6];
total += array[j+7];
"

that's my favorite

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Manticore Night
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Posted: 26th Nov 2005 00:15
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Quote: "marypoppins = (superman + starship) / god; "
I like this the most, just because it sounds funny.

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Mattman
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Posted: 26th Nov 2005 05:54
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Gah, I read it, to find out Manticore stole my quote!


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David R
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Posted: 26th Nov 2005 20:14
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Quote: "Never document gotchas in the code. If you suspect there may be a bug in a class, keep it to yourself. If you have ideas about how the code should be reorganised or rewritten, for heaven's sake, do not write them down. Remember the words of Thumper in the movie Bambi "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all". What if the programmer who wrote that code saw your comments? What if the owner of the company saw them? What if a customer did? You could get yourself fired. An anonymous comment that says "This needs to be fixed!" can do wonders, especially if it's not clear what the comment refers to. Keep it vague, and nobody will feel personally criticised. "





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Jeku
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Posted: 26th Nov 2005 21:49 Edited at: 26th Nov 2005 21:49
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Although you can't write anonymous comments in code nowadays, as the large videogame companies use CVS' that track every change. Oh well

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