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When your code is brilliantly modular and class based, but no one gets your joke about it being super classy...
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Haha this happened to me once! But it took me a week to figure it out and after re-writing the code and hours upon hours of googling2
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My former boss kept insisting "we need deeper fonts!"
Me: do you mean darker?
Boss: no, deeper!
Me: do you want me to make it bold?
Boss: no, deeper!!12 -
When you document your class just right, so when you encounter it accidentally while debugging, you feel like digging in a base class, because it's so well documented and perfectly written.1
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The Captain Obvious commenter:
// account deletion
account.delete()
// check results
if results.any()
.... which eventually leads confusing unmaintained comments3 -
I'm reluctant to introduce devRant to my co-workers because I'm worried they might connect the dots and realize I've been complaining about them :/8
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1. Identify the problem
2. Come up with a clever solution
3. Refactor half of your code
4. Watch it fail horribly because you're such an idiot it's a bloody miracle you keep breathing on your own
5. Repeat2 -
I would rant, but I am too busy fixing some bullshit and doing content entry. Maybe I will have time next year.