Worst dev advice you've been given?

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redstonetehnik

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3

mdalex

254

7y

Then when someone asks why you did something a specific way "fuck, hmmmm, give me an hour to evaluate my decisions and logic"
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donuts

23848

7y

TODO: fix this shit

Why didn't they fix it... This code looks like crap...
3

Kamaropoulos

3469

7y

Worst advice I've ever heard so far...
6

crapperthepooh

50

7y

Good code explains itself
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Kamaropoulos

3469

7y

@crapperthepooh Good luck...

float InvSqrt (float x){
float xhalf = 0.5f*x;
int i = *(int*)&x;
i = 0x5f3759df - (i>>1);
x = *(float*)&i;
x = x*(1.5f - xhalf*x*x);
return x;
}
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donuts

23848

7y

@crapperthepooh esoteric business knowledge doesn't... And there's a lot of that in real code...

Sometimes optimization breaks things.

Good code explains itself **when it is paired unit tests that cover the use cases**
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donuts

23848

7y

@Kamaropoulos

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I see... what happens if I put in a negative #?
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Kamaropoulos

3469

7y

@crapperthepooh
The code about is the inverse square root implementation in Quake 3. It's definitely a great piece of code but there is a whole paper explaining how it works.
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crapperthepooh

50

7y

Wow that escalated quickly haha, ofcourse I document classes or complex functions when there intent is not obvious, but I always aim for self explainatory code
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crapperthepooh

50

7y

@billgates and yea, we TDD 90% of the time so if someone breaks something the merge request cant be accepted
3

Kamaropoulos

3469

7y

@billgates The end of the world... 😜
1

codefriar

6

7y

No no. Don't kill them. Break their fingers.
1

cino

40

7y

I prefer no comments. I like markdown docs or commit comments. If a comment is needed most likely the code requires some touch us.
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gokulk16

57

7y

@codefriar No mercy. Have to kill them.