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I TAKE IT BACK, GO BACK TO FUCKING THE HOUSE!

(https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/2511.html?thread=3560655#cmt3560655)

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Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41788026

Impressively awful idea, roundly mocked.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

> I flag nearly all abbreviations in code reviews because code is meant to be read and the names of things should be clear.

Mildly traumatized by this HN comment because I've been going through a bunch of code written by one of my copilot-abusing coworkers and abbreviating all the ridiculous variable names they shat all over our codebase, e.g.

> PseudoAnonymousIdentifierNetworkConfiguration pseudoAnonymousIdentifierNetworkConfiguration = new PseudoAnonymousIdentifierNetworkConfiguration(feederVariable);
> long pseudoAnonymousIdentifierNetworkConfigurationId = pseudoAnonymousIdentifierNetworkConfiguration.get_id();

We're already cursed with long-ass Java class names. No need to make it even less readable.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Hahaha istg I saw someone on a thread somewhere recently who was advocating expanding like 'i, j' in for loops to... whatever the fuck you'd expand them to? 🤷

But tbf I've seen both sides of it. I've seen codebases where devs have got around a requirement they've been given to document every function, by doing things like:


StartBoxFunction()

// This function starts box

FactorySetterUpgradeFunction()

// This is the factory setter upgrade function


And I've seen stuff like:


for i in mtools.j[3],
i +=73
g.append(i)
return(x, g, j[3][54])


If devs want to write shit code, they'll find a way.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Someone else on the linked thread had a similar experience, apparently.

> At my last job, there was a frontend developer who added a linter rule that variable names must be at least 2 characters long. The project already had 20,000 lines of code. Every time anyone made a change to a file, they would have to rename all the one letter variables. Usually, this meant all the for loops in the file. I tried to explain how pointless this rule was, but he wasn't having any of it.

> Most people just renamed variables like i > ii, which was worse.

> Eye and Jay are go to as well.

One cannot underestimate the creativity of a dev who just wants to ship their PR.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

💀 I'm still salty about ppl I was working with wasting everyone's time by demanding everyone do signed commits for their toy codebase, just in case they got next-level-Jia-Tan'd, but that does put it in perspective.