If people keep sending me these links I'm going to start taking it personally :)

[Robert Valentino]

For some reason my wife who has never written a line of code keeps getting these types of links popping up in her Google news threads and of course they are sent to me...

https://towardsdatascience.com/four...er-scientists-writes-sloppy-code-b8505254e251

 

[aeric]

I am facing a situation at work where a colleague is resigning from his job. He built a system with AngularJS (Not Angular) with C# web service using mixture of LINQ to SQL and SQL queries. A lot of unused functions inside the project and convention of variables or object from self defined data types. The front end includes modified version of bootstrap and also angular material CSS but used once here and there. The team is having issue to understand the code, add new features and to fix bugs. Can you imagine a person who is graduated from medicine who become a developer?

 

[rabbitBUSH]

Can you imagine a person who is graduated from medicine who become a developer?

And, then there's me with a bachelor's in journalism and masters in fine art. go figure....

This week a friend had the same problem unravelling the code of a ex colleague who did have a com sci degree...

does this all mean coding is an art and not a science? (sorry should have started a new thread for a new question.....)

 

[Daestrum]

Sometimes it's just fun to write code that's hard to understand.
Many years ago (early 90's) our company was taken over, so we knew our days were numbered.

We used NCR mainframe they used IBM. They wanted our system on their hardware so we had to convert it to IBM.

To those not familiar with the subtle differences between the NCR & IBM ideologies.

NCR people were jack of all trades, we would load printers with paper, operate the machine, do system analysis, write efficient code.
IBM people were "I don't write code, I'm an analyst", program running slow - buy more hardware.

Anyhow, we re-wrote our system using recursion in COBOL, knowing full well they would hove no idea what it was doing.

Sometimes it's the little things that give the most pleasure.

 

[aeric]

And, then there's me with a bachelor's in journalism and masters in fine art. go figure....

This week a friend had the same problem unravelling the code of a ex colleague who did have a com sci degree...

does this all mean coding is an art and not a science? (sorry should have started a new thread for a new question.....)

If a scientist going to be a journalist, the article should be sound technical I guess. This is a good thing for developer.
People from different backgrounds and mindset, think differently on how to join all the pieces together into a masterpiece. At the end of the day half of the people appreciate and the other half may not. For me, a good application should be maintainable by someone else (or by the developer himself). That is why we write short comments to remind ourself what the code meant for so in the future we still can figure out. It is more like building a car than drawing a picture.

 

[rabbitBUSH]

It is more like building a car

Robotics

How eligantly could a code generator code and would it add comments in order to address the #1 article statements and @aeric sound principles....

We used NCR mainframe they used IBM.

Ja. And we progressed from IBM to CDC as I recall the latter was easier....

 

[aeric]

I remembered I studied a subject name Object Oriented System Analysis and Design (OOSAD) in college and I think some developer nowadays lack of this knowledge. There are some useful principles that developer should learn and apply.

 

[emexes]

keeps getting these types of links popping up in her Google news threads and of course they are sent to me...

Do a search on topics of interest to your wife but including words like: terrible, fail, loser, disaster, antisocial, divorce, nightmare, bankrupt

The Tiny-House Dream Is Actually a Nightmare

It might look great on Instagram, but...

www.thrillist.com

and keep posting those links back in return until a truce is called ✌

 

[rabbitBUSH]

Next time you walk past someone viewing Pinterest you will start getting messages from there suggesting things you Are interested in.....

?

 

[Robert Valentino]

Her suggestion for me was really valid. Because we always learn things as we go along, whenever I revisit an old slice of code I normally spend time trying to apply the new features (and more then once this has cause bugs that I didn't have before - NOW for me this is not to much of a problem. Because I only have 1 APP that goes out to customers [been retired for just about 20 years] so as long as I don't botch that one up all my problems are just mine - LOL). But it I just got picked on for not using Simple Simple Strings in a hack of the B4XTable example trying to see if it would fit my needs.

 

[Erel]

But it I just got picked on for not using Simple Strings in a hack of the B4XTable example trying to see if it would fit my needs.

Not simple strings, smart strings
I was not picking. Just recommending...