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Someone mentioned in here "lol non-English code." I happened to stumble upon some the other day on Stack Overflow where you could tell the majority of people wanted to respond with "speak English or die you giant idiot." It was very funny.

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06-03-2011 , 02:32 PM

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The original post it was pointing at was this block of code:

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View v = new View(context)
{ public void onMeasure(int w, int h)
{ setMeasuredDimension(width, height);//the desired width and height
}}; //important
v.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true); //important
v.measure(width,height); //important the desired width and height
v.layout(0, 0, v.getMeasuredWidth(), v.getMeasuredHeight()); //important
v.setDrawingCacheQuality(DRAWING_CACHE_QUALITY_HIG H);
v.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(width,height)); //important
v.buildDrawingCache(true); //important
Bitmap b = v.getDrawingCache(true);
v.buildDrawingCache(false);

With no line breaks or CRs. And people on StackOverflow are getting butthurt that no one would hire a guy like this. **** that. If people want to write all their code in one ****ing line, go **** yourself. I'm not debugging it.

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06-03-2011 , 03:01 PM

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Wow, I agree. I don't care if they agree to use a different code style when they're on my team or if there are tools that will reformat the code - anyone that has judgement that leads them to write code in giant lines isn't getting hired by me.

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06-03-2011 , 03:07 PM

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Is anyone else loving the litany of hacks on Sony, publicly displaying them as completely incompetent? Storing user/pass combinations in plaintext, no hash, no nothing?

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06-03-2011 , 03:08 PM

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The original post it was pointing at was this block of code:

With no line breaks or CRs. And people on StackOverflow are getting butthurt that no one would hire a guy like this. **** that. If people want to write all their code in one ****ing line, go **** yourself. I'm not debugging it.

Yeah, this is ridiculous, as is the dude's assertion that it is "easier for him to read that way." Total nonsense. Your mind isn't special and different: You are lazy and unstudied.

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06-03-2011 , 03:10 PM

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Yeah, this is ridiculous, as is the dude's assertion that it is "easier for him to read that way." Total nonsense. Your mind isn't special and different: You are lazy and unstudied.

I agree with your sentiment, and he very well may be lazy and unstudied, but I think it speaks to a mental disorder or something. Who in their right mind would think that is a reasonable thing to do? If you've taken a single English class (or nation-specific language class, excuse the nationalism), you understand sentence and paragraph structure. It applies to "programming," too!

It blows my mind.

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06-03-2011 , 03:17 PM

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Yeah it's really really bizarre, even more bizarre than someone who writes pages and pages of English with no paragraph breaks, and by a lot I think.

And even in the highly unlikely even that the guy is just a genius with an eccentric mind and his own way of thinking, I still wouldn't want anything to do with him because arguably the most important part of a programmer's job is to communicate with other programmer's clearly through code.

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06-03-2011 , 03:22 PM

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**** I am addicted to StackExchange today. I am just going to flood this thread with the fun ones.

How to handle javascript on page with thousands of checkboxes in IE6

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Are you designing a webapp for Battleship hardcore mode?

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06-03-2011 , 03:52 PM

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There is so levels of WTF. First off, there are 8000 check boxes. But then he throws in that it needs to support IE6. It hasn't been the current version for 5 years.

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06-03-2011 , 04:20 PM

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With no line breaks or CRs. And people on StackOverflow are getting butthurt that no one would hire a guy like this.

lol wat???? I thought that site was supposed to be good.

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06-03-2011 , 04:36 PM

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Is anyone else loving the litany of hacks on Sony, publicly displaying them as completely incompetent? Storing user/pass combinations in plaintext, no hash, no nothing?

It does amuse me to hear the various ways our news anchors say "Lulz Security" and such

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06-03-2011 , 04:39 PM

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lol wat???? I thought that site was supposed to be good.

It is. But coders in general get butthurt about that kind of thing when you insult their "creativity."

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06-03-2011 , 04:45 PM

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It is. But coders in general get butthurt about that kind of thing when you insult their "creativity."

It seems like people are responding the title of the post rather than the block-code guy. That is, they are saying you shouldn't get all nitty about the style of braces and such, which is a valid point. It seems they are ignoring the specific example at hand, which is clearly indefensible.

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06-03-2011 , 04:46 PM

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I also find there's a bit of extremism in a lot of the people that post there.

So in this case, I think most of us agree with the idea that you shouldn't judge a programmer by the exact coding style they use. These people then take that concept to the extreme...

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06-03-2011 , 04:46 PM

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so, a kid i know just did this...

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06-03-2011 , 04:52 PM

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lol, that's pretty funny, poor guy is never gonna get laid again though.

I've seen a t-shirt with something to that effect before. But you can take a t-shirt off.

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06-03-2011 , 04:55 PM

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Yeah, this is a better explanation than my post.

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06-03-2011 , 04:59 PM

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lol, that's pretty funny, poor guy is never gonna get laid again though.

Nah, he's just not going to get laid until he's in his late 20s and he hits the nerd-loving crowd of girls.

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06-03-2011 , 05:27 PM

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Nah, he's just not going to get laid until he's in his late 20s and he hits the nerd-loving crowd of girls.

Where should I be aiming to hit this crowd you speak of?

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06-03-2011 , 06:02 PM

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This. Is. Awesome.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com...ew/81378#81378

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An amusing filter is the following. Give them a list of buzzwords for different technologies, and ask which they have worked with. Make a couple of them fake made-up technologies. Anyone who claims to have worked with those is a no hire. (Someone actually made up a networking technology, wrote up a good web page describing it, and then used it in phone screens. Any candidate who read back his fake description when asked about the technology was a no hire. I forget the name of the technology.)

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from STTF:

What I want to know is: what did he write in his ankles?

</body>
<footer>

or

</body>
<div id=foot>

or did he create an external XML and create his own metatags?

and did he put <a href="myhand"> on his..?

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There is so levels of WTF. First off, there are 8000 check boxes. But then he throws in that it needs to support IE6. It hasn't been the current version for 5 years.

Lots of people still need to support IE6. There's still a significant number of corporate users who are stuck on IE6 for $$ reasons, and any internal app that serves those users still has to work.

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06-04-2011 , 09:23 AM

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I have to support IE6 for all the stuff I write, the client is a big company who all have IE6 as their standard browser. Nothing much I can do about it really.

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06-04-2011 , 10:25 AM

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I have to support IE6 for all the stuff I write, the client is a big company who all have IE6 as their standard browser. Nothing much I can do about it really.

Tell them to upgrade their browser for free like every other normal user of the internet?

I've never understood in what situation this would not be possible. I am seriously curious how this would even happen.

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06-04-2011 , 10:44 AM

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Updating corporate software involves testing, it may also involve rewriting internal apps, all that costs money. It's not just the cost of the browser.

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