Humor Random Comments Thread

[Urwumpe]

I am not sure what to think of people who use undocumented one-letter variable names in non-declarative languages. I know the guy who wrote the code in front of me is a better coder than I am, but... seriously dude?

Well, VERY often you simply have straight forward implementations of mathematical or physical formulas... also, using "o" for a generic object is not uncommon. i,j,k,l,m and n are also popular for loops, because they are used that way in mathematics again.

In other news: What the CIA found out about Russian humor:

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP89G00720R000800040003-6.pdf

 

[MaverickSawyer]

In other news: What the CIA found out about Russian humor:

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP89G00720R000800040003-6.pdf

Some absolute gold ones in there. :tiphat:

 

[jedidia]

Well, VERY often you simply have straight forward implementations of mathematical or physical formulas

Oh, in those contexts it's alright (though I do usually appreciate if people specify the equation they're using). This is not that context, however...

 

[Urwumpe]

Oh, in those contexts it's alright (though I do usually appreciate if people specify the equation they're using). This is not that context, however...

Well, then I also remember that theoretical computer science exists. And it also likes single letter variables to avoid writing much. :lol:

What I really dislike is single letter attributes of classes. No problem with X,Y,Z ... but a vector named position is nicer to use.

 

[jedidia]

Well, then I also remember that theoretical computer science exists.

Which is pretty much the background of the guy who wrote the code. So I can't say I was especially surprised by it, but it's still exasperating when I have to find a bug in the code.
Add to that that it's in clojure and heavily uses macros, and you end up with 100 lines of code in which I'm wandering around for hours now and am still not sure of what they do.
It's not quite Swearjure, but it is definitely reminiscent of old-school "efficient" C-code as far as readability is concerned.

 

[Urwumpe]

Add to that that it's in (any programming language) and heavily uses macros, and you end up with 100 lines of code in which I'm wandering around for hours now and am still not sure of what they do.

I generalized your sentence. Macros and operator overloading are the best ways to make your code unreadable. Those should be used VERY carefully and purposefully.

 

[jedidia]

I just found out that we'll be getting a new Star Control this year, developed by none other than old faithful Stardock. This might get interesting! I'm just that wee bit tempted to preorder a game for the first time in my life...

 

[Andy44]

RIP Bill Paxton

 

[Fabri91]

Time to up the randomness factor of the thread: as mentioned some weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit the KSC, and took a flight to Miami from Munich.

To the left of our aircraft a Lufthansa A321 was parked, but it wasn't just any A321, instead it was D-AIRY, serial number 901 and named after the city of Flensburg, whose construction was documented 15-20 years ago on the German children TV program "Die Sendung mit der Maus" and which can be seen here:

 

[Urwumpe]

To the left of our aircraft a Lufthansa A321 was parked, but it wasn't just any A321, instead it was D-AIRY, serial number 901 and named after the city of Flensburg, whose construction was documented 15-20 years ago on the German children TV program "Die Sendung mit der Maus" and which can be seen here

One of the best examples why this TV show deserves to be called legendary. :thumbup: I loved the episodes about the D-AIRY, they really explained it better then any modern 30 minute documentary.

 

[Fabri91]

Exactly! I never saw the first of the two episodes, so I caught up on it last evening. :lol:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Promoted to full professor!:bananadance::banana:

 

[steph]

A friend of mine posted that "God never closes a door without opening another" So... God goes through airlocks?

 

[RisingFury]

So... God goes through airlocks?

But... if God is faced with the choice of going through two airlocks, does he appear in a superposition of two states, passes through both of them and interacts with himself to create an interference pattern?

 

[Thunder Chicken]

A friend of mine posted that "God never closes a door without opening another" So... God goes through airlocks?

"Open the pod bay doors God."

 

[jedidia]

Isn't that basically what the latecomers to the ark were shouting, with pretty much the same response? :lol:

 

[RisingFury]

God is like a quantum particle. Everywhere at the same time, but incredibly unlikely to be in your life.

 

[Urwumpe]

God is like a quantum particle. Everywhere at the same time, but incredibly unlikely to be in your life.

God is a WIMP. You'll never know for sure if he interacted with you.

 

[steph]

I'm just confused. Why doesn't he just teleport?
:lol: Sorry. Not that I'm an atheist (nor very religious, not that it matters), but I've had some nasty experiences with evangelical christians, and I love making fun of everything religion-related ever since. especially since in some cases, it's quite easy

 

[PhantomCruiser]

...When a door closes...

Open it again, it's door after all. Or breach that and make entry.