majikandy

Yes I was only really referencing production long lived code. Mostly I’m a big fan of quick and dirty being something that doesn’t really exist. I believe in quick and throwaway and quick and single/multi use. Comments are fine, just the original suggestion I was referencing sounded like they were a priority.

I’m just suggesting that the comments are the last resort, the same as you say there. For me, the test names cover the why.

Can’t it be both?

A good alternative is code without comments that communicates just as well as that code without the comments. Not necessarily better but less likely to slip out of sync with the comments upon change.

The two aren’t always mutually exclusive, you might be writing code for a good market fit that stands the test of time and needs maintaining.

The times you appreciate it are actually when you open something and it’s nice and easy to change and you realise you were the one who wrote it. But real developer happiness comes when you have the same experience and someone else wrote it.

This. I was about to mention the same quote. This quote alone has served me well over the years. Sounds jokey but if you live by this, it’s brilliant.

>it’s harder to read code that to write it

Isn’t this only true of bad code? Good code is almost certainly the other way round, harder to write than read… just like a really good book was much harder for the author than it was for you, the reader.

I remember this too. Actually I (maybe incorrectly)think release builds contained it too. You used to have to actively obfuscate to make sure it was protected. I definitely used decompilers and got great results with very readable code that felt very close to the original.

Funny, I bet many of us actually do do programming at home for fun! Also the day job. However I wouldn’t do the day job type of programming at home for fun, so I guess it is a similar concept.

I’m also curious. What do you love now that you paused your writing?

Typo: “if you love someone” should be “if you love something”. Am I allowed to point out a typo? If not I’ll delete this.

I liked the article, you’re a good writer.

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Thoroughly enjoyable. Initially I thought the slide to unlock was going to jailbreak my iPhone :)

This is amazing! I was mesmerised and watched the whole video hoping it wouldn’t end.

How do we try it for real?

Clever. Time to use Rusk. Oh no that’s Rust isn’t it.

Noted

And this time the better format won right? Unlike Betamax which I hadn’t realised was actually invented 2 years before VHS and it’s fizzle-out was basically because of Sony patents.

I prefer 1 or 0, do or do not. The rest of the sequence is meaningless. If you are truly in a position where two different features will bring the company £5mil of revenue and one is a 3 and one is a 13, just do both, no need to prioritise the 3.

Introduce one? But call it a quick 5 mins regroup with the team.

Really easy to thrash at something for days though thinking you are ‘almost there’. And someone else on the team might be able to help either directly or help you think of the solution if you just spoke out loud with the team sharing information.

If would be amazing if it kept playing when you press “search similar” on the one you are playing.

Wow. The songs it suggests have such a similar tempo and vibe that when I try it with songs I don’t know I can’t really remember which is which.

I wonder if this app has more potential for the record companies and songwriters in terms of finding copyright infringement than it does for the consumer finding new music they like?

I love seeing comments in the code as they are usually the best entertainment I get all day. Especially when the code below it pretty much doesn’t do what it says anymore.

AppSheet do it too and they are owned by Google now, if Apple lets Google do it, I’d think Retool are fine?

Very cool, can imagine that on my Apple Watch

Great movie.

You can if you slice it

Exactly this. It is kind of always a little bit greasy, a little bit crispy burnt crumbs inside. Really fatty foods like sausages, you dump the waste oil after taking the food out, and rinse it a bit. It’s hard to describe without sounding gross, but strangely seems not that gross when you have one.

The fan, not that much. Out of sight out of mind :)

No need to pretend it’s healthier. Some things will be, some things won’t be. Definitely doesn’t take 3x in a home setting. If anything 3x faster start to finish in my experience.