Twelfth Post!

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Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

There's another file that just contains this (well, this and twenty other constants that are also defined in another file). Why! Just why!

class FruitMetrics:
  """
  Increment a counter metric
  """
  def incrementMetric(metricTag, value):
    if metricTag in counters:
       counters[metricTag] += value
    else:
       counters[metricTag] = value

  """
  Increment a counter metric by 1
  """
  def incrementMetric(metricTag):
    incrementMetric(metricTag, 1)

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Was this codebase in the hands of a team where LoC was treated as a metric? I've seen this kind of shit before when companies have contracted work out, to try to offshore dev jobs, and they've gone for the cheapest possible contractors who 1) don't know how to code and 2) are encouraged to write as many LoC as possible. You get this kind of code + meaningless comments, because there's usually a clause in the contract saying they have to comment every method.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

And tbf, the other place you get this kind of code is me, when I am lazy. Well, no, not THIS bad and nonsensical, but looking at FruitIngester, I could see myself copy-pasting repeated lines in a stupid way if it was an early draft; I'd rather get code working and then make it Not Stupid, than work out how to abstract things when I'm tired. Though I'm also lazy, so in that situation FruitIngester wouldn't exist in the first place, because why tf does it exist.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

Ding ding ding! This PR has three authors, and one of them is a contractor from Cognizant.

Of the other two, one of them is also offshore, and the other is an AI enthusiast. One of the files in this PR is a Cursor prompt he accidentally checked in.

Re: Coding

[(Anonymous)]

How does this shit have THREE authors???