Click here to Skip to main content
15,867,594 members

The Weird and The Wonderful

   

The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
GeneralRe: Tell me what's wrong with the following Pin
Gary R. Wheeler4-May-22 12:53
Gary R. Wheeler4-May-22 12:53 
GeneralRe: Tell me what's wrong with the following Pin
charlieg15-May-22 1:33
charlieg15-May-22 1:33 
GeneralRe: Tell me what's wrong with the following Pin
Gary R. Wheeler15-May-22 3:16
Gary R. Wheeler15-May-22 3:16 
GeneralRe: Tell me what's wrong with the following Pin
charlieg20-Jul-22 8:03
charlieg20-Jul-22 8:03 
GeneralRe: Tell me what's wrong with the following Pin
englebart1-Sep-22 14:18
professionalenglebart1-Sep-22 14:18 
RantTaking responsibility Pin
Andreas Mertens27-Apr-22 8:32
professionalAndreas Mertens27-Apr-22 8:32 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
PIEBALDconsult27-Apr-22 11:45
mvePIEBALDconsult27-Apr-22 11:45 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
Andreas Mertens27-Apr-22 12:08
professionalAndreas Mertens27-Apr-22 12:08 
Yes and no. Personally I don't care that much one way or another. I just find that this is a lot of passing the buck, and a non-willingness to clean up things that are not needed (a bit of YAGNI I feel).

However we do have automated scans that look at the repos and see which might need work, such as updating libraries and. Net versions used. Keeping this in there just generates false positives that then have to be looked at. And these projects tend to be floated around various teams that may not be aware of what these duplicated projects are about.

I am of the mindset that if I am working on a project, and find unused code, it should be cleaned up. Just more technical debt to deal with.

GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
PIEBALDconsult27-Apr-22 13:11
mvePIEBALDconsult27-Apr-22 13:11 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
charlieg26-Jul-22 10:37
charlieg26-Jul-22 10:37 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
honey the codewitch30-Apr-22 2:15
mvahoney the codewitch30-Apr-22 2:15 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
Andreas Mertens30-Apr-22 3:46
professionalAndreas Mertens30-Apr-22 3:46 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
Richard Deeming27-Apr-22 21:20
mveRichard Deeming27-Apr-22 21:20 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
Andreas Mertens28-Apr-22 4:05
professionalAndreas Mertens28-Apr-22 4:05 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
charlieg26-Jul-22 10:39
charlieg26-Jul-22 10:39 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
Andreas Mertens26-Jul-22 12:57
professionalAndreas Mertens26-Jul-22 12:57 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
charlieg27-Jul-22 10:32
charlieg27-Jul-22 10:32 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
Bernhard Hiller28-Apr-22 20:39
Bernhard Hiller28-Apr-22 20:39 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
abmv3-May-22 7:15
professionalabmv3-May-22 7:15 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
kmoorevs3-May-22 11:26
kmoorevs3-May-22 11:26 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
Andreas Mertens3-May-22 13:53
professionalAndreas Mertens3-May-22 13:53 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
englebart1-Sep-22 14:54
professionalenglebart1-Sep-22 14:54 
GeneralRe: Taking responsibility Pin
jschell8-May-22 9:08
jschell8-May-22 9:08 
GeneralPathYetAnotherMakeUniqueName Pin
Brisingr Aerowing4-Apr-22 7:56
professionalBrisingr Aerowing4-Apr-22 7:56 
GeneralRe: PathYetAnotherMakeUniqueName Pin
raddevus4-Apr-22 10:14
mvaraddevus4-Apr-22 10:14 

General General    News News    Suggestion Suggestion    Question Question    Bug Bug    Answer Answer    Joke Joke    Praise Praise    Rant Rant    Admin Admin   

Use Ctrl+Left/Right to switch messages, Ctrl+Up/Down to switch threads, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to switch pages.