I am not shitting you

[jjjiii]

Today, at work, we had a meeting, and discussed the creation of an application that will create TPS reports.

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[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

my brother and i had to do those once a few years ago.

i put down basically everything i did tiny job by job.

my brother did: "worked" every 15 mintues or so.

Not long after, we were told not to bother with them.

[jecook]

Icky. I had to do that for a month. It sucked.

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

on the bright side, when i had to do it again about two years ago, my boss and the other "computer" person had to do them too.

They were both let go shortly after.

I'm the remaining computer person out of 4, and the workload actually went DOWN, because now i'm not babysitting people above me anymore.

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

At Apple some of the engineers were supposed to report how many lines of code they wrote... One of them cleaned up a project removing 2k of code and put down -2000 as the number of lines of code he wrote. www.folklore.org

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

ouch.. line count is about the most useless benchmark they could have come up with.

sounds like my brothers coding though, when he's given someone's code, first thing he does is go nuts removing things that don't actually DO anything.. i've seen him strip a program to a third its size, and not lose any functionality.

[jjjiii]

Is this otherwise known as removing comments?

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

no, more like(vaguely from memory)

dim variable as int

...

variable1 = variable
variable1 = 0


and then the code didn't use either variable or variable1 anyways. bad enough they defined it, didn't initialize it, assigned variable1 to be it, and then defined variable1 to be 0 anyways...

he sees a lot of stupid code like that.

or something like (again, from vague memory)

dim canadiantous as whatever

...

canadiantous = 1

if currency = "us"
variable=variable * exchangerate
else
variable=variable * canadiantous
endif

why bother doing the canadiantous thing?

another part in a different Access database converted a currency value from US to canadian.

three times in a row.. back when the dollar was around 1.50 to 1.. couldn't figure out why everything was off by a factor of 3.5...