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Comment by zengid | Hacker News Reader

Is anyone else bothered by the code at the beginning of this article? Simply returning the expression would have had the same effect, ie:

    function getDevJob(studying, hardWork, luck){
        return studying && hardWork && luck;
    }

I know that it might not make the code readable to novice javaScripters, but it bothers me anyway..

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I'm more bothered because it's becoming "so clever" to put everyday life activities into a function. I saw code written in chalk on a sidewalk billboard at the door of a coffee shop yesterday. No, I will not reciprocate that cringe and verbally call a function to order my coffee because the barista learned Hello World the previous night.

Becoming? It's been this way since I first started hanging out in internet tech circles (eight years, longer I'm sure).

That's not even the biggest problem with this method. The name is totally wrong.

Yes.

It's a rhetorical device. And some could argue that code is also a rhetorical device.

But the only argument an if else block that returns true or false based on a boolean makes is "I'm not very good at this"

I immediately picked up on this, too. From the code I've seen, novice programmers tend to do this a lot more often than someone who has been programming for a while.

On a similar note, another thing novice programmers do often is rewrite min and max using if-else.

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