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The self documenting one always gets me. It's not like the person has never read code that is difficult to understand. Yet they think it is just other people w
by trixie_ 6y ago
The self documenting one always gets me. It's not like the person has never read code that is difficult to understand.
Yet they think it is just other people who write 'bad' code. Their own code can't possibly be bad. In fact it is so good that it 'documents itself'. It's just a statement that drips with arrogance.
- selykg 6y agoYa, but with a security product there are important considerations and while we commented on areas where we fixed a bug due to something fixable, it was a pain in general. Decisions maybe don’t belong in code but with a security product I feel there has to be some quality level of comments to explain why and how. Someone coming along later can’t be expected to be in the authors head and the author won’t remember all this stuff years later when it might matter or need to be rewritten. Such a shit show