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The 10 Most In-Demand Software Skills
CIO Insight ^
| 07/02/2014
| By Karen A. Frenkel
Posted on 07/02/2014 9:19:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: olepap
comments are fine until the code and the comments diverge, which they always will...
Good point. Comments are also fine until you're given one hour to complete a four hour task.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
07/02/2014 11:53:18 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("The Arab Spring is over. Welcome to the Jihadi Spring." Jonah Goldberg)
To: Scrambler Bob
“Fix code later???”
Well, update or change I mean. If nobody else can figure out my code, they have to call me back and pay me to do it, or pay someone else a bunch more money to redo it from scratch. Why should I leave a cheat sheet for my competition?
If they want to pay me extra for documentation, then maybe I’d do it. Otherwise, if they pay for the code, they get the code, not code + comments.
Now, I don’t do stuff like make the code intentionally obscure like the fellow you mentioned. I have just found the average skill level programmers usually have trouble figuring out what I am doing unless I explain it to them.
To: JRandomFreeper
If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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posted on
07/03/2014 10:35:49 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: JRandomFreeper
I've seen the comment "Nobody here or at knows what this statement does, but if it's changed, the display quits working" in aircraft display software.
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posted on
07/03/2014 10:37:48 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: JRandomFreeper
I've seen the comment "You wouldn't understand this" next to a complex regex line. In production code. /johnny Well, at least they were *honest*...
Cheers!
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07/04/2014 7:06:17 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
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To: Darteaus94025; JRandomFreeper
Cheers!
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07/04/2014 2:35:43 PM PDT
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grey_whiskers
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