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LagrangePoint@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Yeah, this was torture in grade school. I figured it would get better in middle school.

Then it was torture in middle school and I thought it would get better in high school.

Then it was STILL torture in high school and I thought it would surely, surely get better in college.

Then I got to college and there were still mofos reading. like. this.

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maniacal_gaff@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I am an engineer who oversees a team. Most of them can’t write more than a coherent sentence. Code and analyze data, sure, but put together a coherent paragraph? Not really.

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- ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  There’s a weird ongoing thing in the programming world where about half of coders think code should be well-commented and the other half not only think that code shouldn’t contain comments but also think that comments are an indicator of professional incompetence (aka a “code smell”). I’ve long noticed that the anti-commenting crowd are also the ones that can’t write very well.
  
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  - Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Almost like they don’t want anyone to figure out how dogshit their code is.
    
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    Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    People who dislike code documentation are often overoptimizers, from my experience.
    
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  - kicksystem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    One way my code improves is by thinking what I need to comment. Then I refactor some and the comments become somewhat redundant.
    
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  - afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I don’t think I would agree to work with someone who doesn’t comment their code.
    
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    ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I was basically driven out of my last job by someone who wouldn’t agree to work with someone (me) who did comment their code. Like I said, it’s a really weird dividing line in programming.
    
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- kicksystem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I have had to tell software engineers time and time again that is is totally okay to make error strings beyond one sentence or one word. It almost seems to me that they never realized that strings can hold multiple sentences and and don’t have relevant memory constraints.
  
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