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shrugs. I've written a lot more code that's both more convoluted and didn't work. I'm not judged for this, because I don't often talk about it. But people shou

shrugs. I've written a lot more code that's both more convoluted and didn't work. I'm not judged for this, because I don't often talk about it. But people should have the right to be occasionally mistaken on their own blog! I don't think the presence of such mistakes takes at all away from accomplishments. Hers is basically a coded version of what you'd do manually, eyeballing past the decimal. She's more familiar with string conversion than ceil, floor and round. So? That merits public judgment of incompetence? Of being an impostor?

plinkplonk 18y ago
"Hers is basically a coded version of what you'd do manually, eyeballing past the decimal. She's more familiar with string conversion than ceil, floor and round. So? That merits public judgment of incompetence?" Yes. I am not trying to be nasty here, but code like that makes me cringe. And yes, if I saw code like that, I would make a strong presumption of programming incompetence.(which is all right. Not everyone has to be a good programmer. As pxlpusher notes above, "get it done" competence is often more valuable). Since it was publicly posted code, I don't see a problem with "public judgment" either. "Of being an impostor?" No. Programming Incompetence != Being an impostor. Anyone can be genuine and incompetent in a particular skill.
- astrec 18y ago
  Since it was publicly posted code, I don't see a problem with "public judgment" either. So judge that code. There simply isn't enough information to presume programmer incompetence (let alone make a strong presumption). In my experience, code reviews are humbling to one and all: Bear that in mind before you raise charges of incompetence.
  - plinkplonk 18y ago
    "In my experience, code reviews are humbling to one and all: Bear that in mind before you raise charges of incompetence." Sure, but as someone said above "I agree in theory, but ... converting a float to a string to compute an average?" We'll have to agree to disagree on whether code like this indicates programmer incompetence. To me, it does. YMMV.
astrec 18y ago
Six Apart seem to have voted with their pocketbook.
omouse 18y ago
She took computer science at a university. I would expect that she knows how to deal with different hashing functions for hash-tables, different types of trees and knows some graph theory among other things. To not be familiar with ceil, floor and round after taking computer science courses is very sad.

plinkplonk 18y ago

"Hers is basically a coded version of what you'd do manually, eyeballing past the decimal. She's more familiar with string conversion than ceil, floor and round. So? That merits public judgment of incompetence?" Yes. I am not trying to be nasty here, but code like that makes me cringe. And yes, if I saw code like that, I would make a strong presumption of programming incompetence.(which is all right. Not everyone has to be a good programmer. As pxlpusher notes above, "get it done" competence is often more valuable). Since it was publicly posted code, I don't see a problem with "public judgment" either. "Of being an impostor?" No. Programming Incompetence != Being an impostor. Anyone can be genuine and incompetent in a particular skill.

astrec 18y ago
Since it was publicly posted code, I don't see a problem with "public judgment" either. So judge that code. There simply isn't enough information to presume programmer incompetence (let alone make a strong presumption). In my experience, code reviews are humbling to one and all: Bear that in mind before you raise charges of incompetence.
- plinkplonk 18y ago
  "In my experience, code reviews are humbling to one and all: Bear that in mind before you raise charges of incompetence." Sure, but as someone said above "I agree in theory, but ... converting a float to a string to compute an average?" We'll have to agree to disagree on whether code like this indicates programmer incompetence. To me, it does. YMMV.

astrec 18y ago

Six Apart seem to have voted with their pocketbook.

omouse 18y ago

She took computer science at a university. I would expect that she knows how to deal with different hashing functions for hash-tables, different types of trees and knows some graph theory among other things. To not be familiar with ceil, floor and round after taking computer science courses is very sad.