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[-] Borovicka@lemm.ee 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My friends, please stop writing "something"s that do 1001 different things.

With regards,
Devs cleaning up old projects

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that won't happen.

And if you propose a separable set of functionality that you can mix as you like, you'll get shut down on the base that it's not viable (doesn't matter if you had written it already), it's too complex to understand (doesn't matter that everybody keeps doing everything wrong because nobody can understand the current one) and YAGNI (doesn't matter that keeping the current one running takes most of the time from everybody).

[-] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

You see, that's why you divide all the smaller distinct batches of logic into their own functions and then give the wrapper function a name like blahBlahOrchestrator or blahBlahManager waves hands mysteriously

[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I prefer to have a blahBlahManagerFactory, with an XML an incredibly brittle undocumented XML configuration file. /s

I find that it makes everyone's work day simpler, because they simply cannot do their jobs. /s

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

If you don't have your config in .txt files with incredibly confusing implicit syntax, you're doing it wrong.

[-] dan@upvote.au 6 points 1 year ago

I wrote a bunch of if statements to work out how to handle various types of errors, and called it ErrorClassifier. Can I add "AI engineer" to my resume now?

[-] fsr1967@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Only if you name it ErrorClassifierGPT

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

It is with great pride that we present you with the Patriot Children initiative. It provides funding for schools to have fireworks shows on July 4th.

*^(It also extends the Patriot Act for 900 years, makes it legal for corporations to own slaves, and revokes the 4th amendment.)

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

why would you be against 4th of July and children?

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Must be some sort of communiss.

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

destroying america!!!!!!

[-] negativenull@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors

[-] atetulo@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

It really is.

I've learned a lot about language by coming up with names and seeing other people's.

I think we are blessed with things like set/get. Such wonderful, simple, short concepts that compliment each other so well.

And they rhyme.

[-] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

OP, I really hope you mean project names and not variable or function names

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Keep it staggeringly substantial.

[-] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. Keep it simple and stupid.

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago
[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If it does 1001 different things, naming it is the least of your problems.

[-] Lemmling@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I agree also organization of your code

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

FreedomGloryActOf2023.exe

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When writing a small, throwaway project, I stick with theIP, theDir, theVar, etc. More fun that way. This is with shell scripts, btw. I’m sure compiled code would be far more of a mess far quicker doing this.

ETA: also someVar, someDir, etc

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