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Just saw a variable in C named like this:
long time_ago; //in a galaxy far away
I laughed no stop.15 -
Programmers: Always use descriptive variable names.
Mathematicians: Single letter variable names always, ideally from obscure/dead alphabets.
Src: Twitter17 -
Some ideas for variable names. Thank me later :))
1. bool sheet;
2. int entionally;
3. char mander;
4. double penetration;
5. string cheese;
6. long schlong;23 -
A variable walks into a bar. Constant bartender: "We don't serve your kind here!"
Variable: "What kind?"
Constant: "You know, sluts!"7 -
Code: if(customer.primaryContract)
Boss: "just using a variable as a boolean isn't very readable"
Me:
if(!(!customer.primaryContract != !true).toString() == 'false')13 -
In all honesty, if there was a course on giving variables good, informative and not completely stupid names... I would take it.
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Copy code from StackOverflow and paste it. Then complaint on why is it giving a Variable Not Found.1
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Variable naming at its best...
Took only 2 hours to notice the difference between leftToRight and lefttoRight
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Interviewer:"what's the challenges you often face in programming?"
Me:"naming variable, class and git commit message always trouble me as I'm a perfectionist."8 -
*1 week into dream job*
Me: I need to communicate this variable to a script running in another thread, how do you normally handle that?
My Lead: oh, just add it as a global variable
Me: oh no...3 -
I can't be the only one who has at least once used a single = for a comparison and spent ages wondering what went wrong 😑8
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"How to name your variables and functions so they can be understood by other humans" should be a mandatory lesson right after someone writes their first ever computer program.16
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Coworker 1: Ugh, what name should I give this variable? Any idea?
Coworker 2: Doesn't matter that much. Just give it a name.
Coworker 1: ** Types in "albert" **7 -
Naming contest:
These two 'new' servers need hostnames.
Names must be within the following constraints:
* Names must be female
* Names must be pronouncable and writable in ASCII standard set of characters.
* Names are preferred to reference to duo's, like sisters, twins, dynamic duo's like chip and dale, but female.
Previous servers were name 'tairu' & 'mairu' (heroic age) and 'karen' & 'tsukihi' (nisemonogatori)
Let's see if the devrant community can surprise me.
Entries will be closed within 48 hours of this post.
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The best job denial letter I've ever seen was sent to my husband and said:
- We already have too many people named Eugen in our company.2 -
I have a variable called 'stuff'. It's a test to see if my colleagues really read my pull requests.3
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When you spend 15 minutes writing the code, and 4 hours coming up with the perfect name for the class/method/variable5
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Proud dev moment : as I was following the variable naming conventions from my company, I got to name a variable "l_o_tr" 💪9
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I was given a work to refactor one of my colleagues code and found that there was a variable named 'anal'. I was quite surprised seeing it as the colleague was a soft spoken and well behaved guy in office. After scratching my head for 15mins I came to know that he was storing analytics data in that variable. Hence the name! :-D9
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Me : *wants to refactor a variable*
Visual Studio : Ok! Type the new name of the variable
Me : *backspace one time to remove a char*
VS : *erases ALL the name of the variable and ALL the usages of the variable, and no possibility to undo*
Me : ..... that was a dick move you know.9 -
why the fuck people name variables endig with numbers? why? how the hell do you even figure out what's what?
checkStatus1
checkStatus2
checkStatusMyAss10 -
I teach kids (7-12 years) to programming. Yesterday my colleague had the last class for this semester, where parents joined their kids to see what they done. They were presenting their projects, and a guy whose father is really strict with him, saw what variable names his son was using. Some of it (censored) are: "d*ck", "p*ssy", "f*ck". The guy is really scared of his father, because he's agressive with him all the time. I don't want to know what was his punishment for this.5
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Found a "great" variable name while maintaining legacy code:
{
...
Report goodbye = Report::first($id);
goodbye->delete();
...
}
Goodbye report! 😂😂😂 -
Classmates having trouble with their mess of spaghetti code and improperly named variables (I saw variable names like "poop" already).6
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Have you ever been at that desperate point where you start naming your variable and functions into something like "pleaseWork"4
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"The variable has been removed during optimization and is not available".
Sometimes I really hate Visual Studio...
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Why yes, it makes total sense for a variable called `$connectionString` to only accept either booleans or integers ... wat
Also beware the beauty on how well that names conveys the variable's intent.
FML
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Came across 'var3' and 'var15' while debugging Hybris. What the actual fuck SAP, since when do you hire preschoolers to code.2
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As à french developer, today I learned we can use accent in variable name.
Like let étude = undefined.
Why would use accent in variable name ? Huh ?
I wonder if I have to fire the guy who made me discover this.9 -
When you use yourself as a rubber duck and you realize how much of a dumbfuck you are...
Fuck me, I was using a variable called staticHTML in ejs template. But when passing the variable, I was using staticHtml.
Goddamn7 -
When you open a non-minified file with tons of difficult calculations only to see, that every variable is around 1 or 2 letters. :'(2
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People who write ridiculous JS variable names that are impossible to understand or are just unreadable!! WTF!! Don't tell me it's to save bytes because its getting minified anyway. You're just fucking lazy.
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Figuring out where to put my devRant stickers is like picking variable names.
Except you can't refactor stickers... -
Sometimes in my code, I'll set a variable to "Jesus" so that when testing, I get to tell myself "Time to find Jesus"
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Syntax for my proposed "unsure" programming language.
Variable declaration:
let's just say that <variable name> = <value>
Function declaration:
hypothetically, we could <function name> (<args>){}
Try/ catch:
it's possible that
{
}
...or not (<ex>)
{
}3 -
Superpower to instantly create variable names every time I need to declare a new variable based on the perfect matching with the code being written..
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Never know why you need to add vanilla to make vanilla. Oh wait, it's just crappy variable naming.
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My loop checked a variable, then the next 5 nested loops checked it again, then started over. It was a hard coded variable I forgot about.
I just made my code OCD -
Only just noticed that CSS has variables - when the fuck did this happen and where the hell was I when it did!!!!8
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There's a special place in hell for people that declares variable like this
let someawesomevariablename = null;4 -
Swap variable without temporary variable
meanwhile C:
a=a+b
b=a-b
a=a-b
while python:
a,b=b,a
Python be like:B*tch Please12 -
Challenge☕️💻🎊
_________________________
Changing value of two variables without using third variable.16 -
Just another day of trying to figure out The purpose of a public method with zero documentation and cryptic variable names🙇🏼🙇🏼🙇🏼6
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Our instructor for game development claims that variable names are not important if your scope is small.
Thoughts?
Here is a picture of his code he gave us as a reference the other day.
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I worked at a startup that indulged in pair programming thing. Where as a junior, you'd be partnered with a senior developer.
My mentor, always insisted on having shortest variable names possible, so that the "size of codebase" will be very small.
It was a nightmare going through his code and understanding what's he's done. Best part, no comments as well.
In a way it has primed me to go through any codebase possible.5 -
When you need to change a variable's value, but can't find the variable name since you're spelling it right.
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I know a guy who uses Unicode characters to write variable and function names. I won't be surprised if I find some Emoji function declaration there3
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I never understood why some developers _ before their Javascript variable or functions. Do they serve any purposes? Other they just make everything look bizarre12
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I named an alias variable feedItem in my database query but I keep accidentally typing feetItem. I have no one to blame but myself.1
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God I hate JavaScript.
Why on earth would some variable * somthing.other (where somthing is undefined) result in 653957364??????17 -
Variable assignment as declaration is stupid. Looking at you, Python 😑
You can never be sure whether you accidentally overwrite a previous value and you have to fuck around with global because it doesn't know what's an assignment to a global var and what's a declaration. It's just not as satisfying as doing it explicitly and only leads to errors30 -
When people use one character variable names in their code I'm just like:
How do you guys live like this... 😰1 -
I hate dumb variable names as much as I hate people who don't signal when they drive.
Never mind the fact that there's a validation-state variable inside his controller, separate rant.
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Names a variable Y, names another Q, yet another U. While still writing looks back at Q. What's Q supposed to mean? Closes laptop and walks away.
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Hello from firefox nightly running on pure wayland by default.
Just set env variable and wohoooooooooo. now this feels nice.5 -
Unsure , if I should name my variable name as 'info' or 'infoFromDbAboutUser_RequiredForSessionValidation' for a method named 'functionToValidateUserAndCheckSessionIdOrAssignSessionIdIfNotAssigned'
Please help, I am unable to decide. :/10 -
Saw a counting variable in code. It was a necessary counting variable, so that is not what this is about.
However, this is a US based company that has a somewhat PC (no cursing) and professional cultural facade.
This variable was called "cnt". How the hell did that one not get caught in peer review? I have gotten dinged for having "possibly offensive" variable names (think Point5Hit though I have never written that as a variable name). It was funny. But I have changed it because that's just lazy.9 -
This Safari Bug is sooo bad, really hard to find it. (It initializes new variables with the element where id and variable name is the same, why?)
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Wtaf?
why are there only two of seven characters of the Webservice password, when the request goes out in my docker container?
Answer:
The password was retrieved via PHP getenv()
Soooo....
If there is a $ in an environment variable, this $ has to be escaped with $$.
fml
Everyday another thingy to learn ^^
xD1 -
I am ashamed to admit that I only learned recently that omitting 'var' in a JS variable declaration inside a function gives the variable global scope. So that's why it wasn't working properly....6
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What’s your preference for a simple if without shorthand:
if ($variable == ‘test’) echo ‘’hello’;
if ($variable == ‘test’) { echo ‘’hello’; }
if ($variable == ‘test’) {
echo ‘’hello’;
}27 -
Anybody else really dislike jQuery coding standards? Like who decided $ was a nice & informative variable name?2
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Is it just me or is the first question of the gcse computer science exam the hardest question in the world?
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People that argue that anyone who doesn't understand their one or two letters long variable names are idiots.2
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RANT: So in school, we have to program using some kind of pseudocode.
Today we wrote an algorithm from a previous exam. Apparently, they don't give you a mark if you get the Array.length(). To receive the mark you have to have to use a variable.
WHICH MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE TO ME.
My teacher said it would even be ok to define a variable like Variable = Array.length. THAT MAKES EVEN LESS SENSE7 -
*writes programs with variables for arguments*
Runs.. Crashes
*removes variables places exact same code in parameter list*
Runs.. Succeeds.
I don't understand you my GPU -
When you just click ok while renaming a variable in android studio and realise, that it changed some words of your AndroidManifest.xml1
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"Tahnik, it's about your code that I'm reviewing. There's bool variable called homeMainCreatePostChoseImageFromLibrary. Any idea what that variable is doing?"
"That's the button the user can click to chose an image from library when creating a post"
"Oh ok. Can you put a comment on that variable?"
"..."4 -
What does my current job hate descriptive names? Like to the point of active antagonism? We're a subscription based service. Why is SubscriptionExpiration the date you log in? Why does SubscriptionStatus only contain the name and id of product you're subscribed to and nothing to do with an actual status? All I need is the date a user subscribed. Why is this so hard!?!?9
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Why commenting is important?
If you are commenting a variable or method and you can't find the right way of explaining it, there's a problem with your code6 -
I needed to update this function to add some more functionality. And this is what i did.( I did added more functionality though)
Will I be fired?
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When my teacher says that you have to produce variable lists for each variable in your program, stating the name, type and what they're used for, if you're coding in Java, you know you're fucked with 16 classes of swing GUI...1
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Thinking how the fuck did the variable became undefined and realizing you defined the variable in an asynchronous rest call...
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So as a student developer with years of background in web development (including both front and backend), c++, java and c#, I was more than surprised when I found out my Informatics assignment hadnt received the proper excellent mark. In fact both me and a friend of mine who has been working with C++ in particular for years got a --mark.
// The assignment was the most simple Windows Forms Application with 2 buttons and a textbox
When we asked about that the teacher said we hadn't labeled the buttons and textboxes, though we had actually taken our time to put labels next to each UI element that would need usage directions.
Though what she meant was renaming the actual variable names, those being textBox1, button1 and button2.
We of course got really mad, because w both follow the accepted naming conventions for each of the languages we write in. Arguing was to no avail. Even telling her that variable naming was not in the assignment instructions was pointless as she said it had been self explanatory..
The others for whom computers are powered by magic, did their assignments as they had memorized everything that teacher had shown them. Why? Because she didn't teach them how to code in the first place. So they copied what would work.
Fucked up educational system, sadly nothing new..
Oh and btw, the naming she uses and teaches students to use is:
button1 - btname
label1- lbname
textBox1 - tbyear2 -
Does anyone else include greek letters in their JavaScript variable names just to fuck with co-workers?1
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When you spend 3h trying to fix a procedure on MySQL and the problem was a f***** variable name. I felt so bad and sad :'(1
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my coworker made a scss-variable for $white. in case white should anywhere soon get a new hex-value3
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C++ Really confuses me... I mean why when defining an array variable is the array notation on the variable name rather than the variable type?1
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Focused on debugging Javascript after being asked for help. Original developer narrowed it down to an if statement. It was acting like the if statement was assigning the variable and causing undefined. Tested console.log before evaluation. Tried !== instead of != and same thing. Even swapped undefined and variable so it would try to assign a variable named undefined instead... It took way too long for the both of us to realize the word "let" in front of the variable on the line withing the if statement block... It overwrite the variable the moment it entered the block.... FML.1
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A little help on Django
So I just started learning Python and Django Framework and I have one question...
Are the variables shared between visitors?
I mean, let's say I have a variable named "school"
school = "school1"
A visitor from X location enters and changes this variable to "school2". A new visitor enters the page from Y location and reads the variable 'school'. What is going to show on visitor Y? "school1" or "school2".2 -
My partner randomly commit to the git.
"A missing semi colon"
"initiate a useless variable"
"adding comment to obvious code"
Hmm ok im done for the week.1 -
My most challenging task during development is choosing variable names.
I make a mess during this process.5 -
Not sure if other programming languages class a Boolean as an integer value buuuuuuut...
The amount of times I've seen people do code such as...
if(value == true) {
variable = "blah blah";
} else if(value == false) {
variable = "blah";
}
Instead of doing a simple 1D array and going...
variable = strings[value];
It drives me crazy, such a small thing that has no real benefit but... Ugh... Whyyyyyyy3 -
Just use a promise that sets this variable, and then you can use the variable as long as its after the promise declaration.
No, just no. Thats not now asynchronous code works.2 -
First assignment after I learned about if-else-then and for loops: draw swastika with modifiable width variable2
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Just fixed a bug I was working on for the last 2 days.. I have set a variable to 1 and everything is working now.
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Maybe I shouldn't code today... or get more sleep.
Every single bug I had today was due to referencing the wrong variables... and not including 'this.'
How do you guard against creating variables with the same names in method and class scope?2 -
I just watched a friend scroll up on our python file to copy the string from a variable so she could paste it to concatenate it...
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I tend to write with long variable names instead of using too many comments to explain what i am doing in the code. Is it wrong?1
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When the rest of your team doesn't know how to spell and use "colour" "grey" as variable names.
😑 It's "color" "gray" as far as I'm concerned.2 -
Spent the day refactoring old copy-pasted astronomical code with minimal commentary, cryptic variable names and missing mathematical symbols. Self documenting code my ass.1
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When your teammate is thinking more about his vacations and when he leaves, you find that he calls a variable "cruise" on a project that has nothing related to it3
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Hate when I forget I rename x variable to y just for the compiler to fuck me in the ass by telling me x variable doesn't exist. FFS!!!1
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Ok Hibernate, when a variable has "ID" in it, you write the variable with "ID" in it. Not "Id".
Took me long to see that.
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Do you put Caps to public variable ?
My IDE was doing caps to public variable but someone told me that he was wrong it's not caps for public variable only functions.9 -
Just to clarify my previous rant:
In this case, refactoring meant changing class, method and variable names -
Time since the last bug caused by blindly copying code in a if/else and forgetting to change a variable: 0 Hours.
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R
Dot can be used for variable name just like underscore. And to confuse, R has object oriented also2 -
The web application which I'm making is fucking big for 1 person and suddenly I'm out of sensible variable names :@
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tabs spaces oses languages what about using I instead of counter or index as a variable for for loop2
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Fuck This.
I thought I was good at giving nicknames (to friends) then suddenly you run out of variable names.
:/2 -
I am asking here, because even stackoverflow community don't know the answer...
Does Doctrine DBAL support oci variable binding in Oracle or not? I need to know but there are no answer so far...
Hopefully, someone here knows :)1 -
In a legacy application i support written in classic asp, the guy who wrote it names his variable 'ok2go'
where d heck was he going? 😞😞😂1 -
Just like we have code developers there serious code breakers (if all is well, they atleast change the variable name)
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'Every variable is a static constant once declared'
All variables in PuppetDSL, really hard to wrap the head around if you are 'used to' re-assign a variable a new value.5 -
Variable Naming process
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Fetching a data of Counties into a variable using Fetch API.
Variable Name: countyData.
The code review is going to be interesting.4 -
When coworkers leave their laptop unlocked we find a commonly used variable name and replace all name references with 'poop'
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