To me, the whole thing with “woke” being used as a derogatory term is the same as conservatist folk calling XR, Last Generation and other activists “eco-terrorists”.

Wtf, I’ve just written above: I’ve been doing software projects with other people for 2 decades. 🤦

I know what IT is, hence my claim that I don’t know what it has to do with naming variables. I know the answer: nothing. It’s a rhetorical figure. 🙄

I’ve been doing it for 2 decades, still don’t get it. So maybe you can enlighten me what IT has to do with naming stuff in code?

I don’t get this meme at all… What am I expected to see in this picture? Or how am I supposed to interpret it?

I’ve found the origin and an explanation, and I think I do get what message this meme should convey, but I’m still confused.

Haha, in the past IRC was the way to control puppets, now it seems Telegram is the way. 😅

Or COBOL.

Removed by mod

A true FP programmer would make it apply instead of run…

If you enjoyed it, I’ve collected a couple of others:

https://untalkative.one/reading:2019:good-stories

Reminds me this great story from a different era:

https://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html

I definitely agree that too many comments is often a bad sign, esp. when large part of them is obviously generated.

As mentioned in my other comment, names will rarely explain the reasons why a given solution was chosen. These reasons are important from maintenance perspective and should be recorded next to the relevant code.

You’re definitely not the only one.

In my opinion the important information we should record in comments is WHY, because the code can only explain HOW, maybe WHEN, but never WHY. If we don’t know WHY, any refactoring done in the future could break the logic by ignoring assumptions made by the authors.

I keep telling myself that in the ideal world, phones would be programmed in Forth.

That comment… Oh my, I want to joke and talk someone like you! Now!

I tried searching for research on it, but only found results claiming this didn’t work… Not actual scientific research, but better than “we think this should work, so now we’ll try selling it”

And “Y” stands for “Your Mom”. But it was a one night stand…

I’m beginning to feel we’re no longer talking about Clean Code being bad, but about people following ideas they don’t understand, which is not related or caused to any particular book.

I hope your book won’t have a table of context and those stupid indexes. If they read it, they should know where you mention topics, right? Tables of contents considered harmful! /s

I’d love to learn what that damage was. I often see complaints (sometimes also involving tech choices) but usually they’re not specific, so I’m always left wondering.