Dear Universities, Real Programmers Don't Use Paper

Content Documentation of easily avoidable issue Me trying to code Why don't they tell people not to do that?

Oh sure, let me just hardcode EVERY SINGLE YEAR until the heat death of the universe because that's definitely what "future proof" means! Nothing screams sustainable architecture like a 2000-line switch statement checking if it's 2020, 2021, 2022... The comment "add more years before 2028 release" is the cherry on top of this disaster sundae. Imagine being the poor soul who has to maintain this abomination in 2027, frantically adding year 2028 before the whole system implodes. Fun fact: leap year logic is literally just divisible by 4 (except centuries unless divisible by 400), but why use a simple algorithm when you can create a monument to technical debt instead? This is what happens when someone takes "explicit is better than implicit" a bit TOO literally.

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Content Molly Struve mollystruve More explicit the better code comments be like (Open box before eating pizza. ALT a pie

Content How do I exit the Vim editor? Asked 8 years, 3 months ago Active 3 months ago Viewed 2.2m times I'm stuck and cannot escape. It says: 4031 "type :quitEnter to quit VIM" But when I type that it simply appears in the object body. 954 vim vi How cool is that?

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