Literally C without C at this point

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Why while(1) when you could while(++n < n--)? Cheat sheet of obnoxious equalities.

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Horrified at the opinion that javascript is better...

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If only there was some way to know how many cents are in a dollar...

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My buddy just sent me this. His colleague used a white .png as background...

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An alternative solution to if (cond) {return null; }

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I love looking through my old code from the early 2000's when I was first learning to program

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How to find the length of a number

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If not null 3 times... twice WITHIN the first check.

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Using a bug to fix a bug 😎

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And the person who wrote this worked in our group for 4 yrs

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Trust me, I’m an engineer

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Found in the Python Selenium code base. Imagine how much time was saved with this abstraction

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So I made a sorting algorithm

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Found in my college textbook. This is neither valid JavaScript nor valid Java !

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A colleague wrote this in our company slack channel

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Code from production from where I work :) (copied the code in to a new file and changed variable names for the screenshot but this is what I found)

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College Board can't handle Apple's HEIC photo format

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In my very short career in dev, this is one highlight of programmingHorror.

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This is pain

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Is there a legitimate reasons to not do this in java besides it looking weird?

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goto BACKDOOR; (production code)

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Was reviewing a code from a guy who saw a tutorial on parkour games and good God

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Visual Studio for Mac is great!

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Are people stupid or what the hell

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one of my friends in college wrote this

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Most cursed code. Example code provided by my professor for an assignment which mixes English and Swedish in method and variable names and comments. WHY!?

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How 😨😨

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Uh what

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This was sent to me from a recruiter

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From yesterday’s episode of Succession. Nice attention to detail.

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analogWrite(VERDE, i) was too difficult to understand

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Found this little gem in the codebase today

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My friend is mastermind behind of this monstrosity

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Assembly but it's deeply cursed with macros

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I was asked to debug this stuff produced by an expert

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hum... seems like a very important function

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Yo what the fuck?

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At least when I wrote this I was aware...

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My co worker said he was tired. I could see that

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My developer friend did not enjoy my undergraduate C++

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Online exam horror.

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Well... I am not smart

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*sighs heavily* welp this is a tomorrow problem

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guys i dont think im using python right

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Lispy Python? sure

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not really bad code, but I wanted to share my regex emoticon

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I present to you all: the one liner merge sort

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Readability is key

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The way QQ browser tried to do cryptography

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This sacred me.

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Help

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yeah, no

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Not even Google is insane enough to follow their rules on their own HTML styleguide

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Worst diff I've ever seen (added support for multiple numeral system bases)

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I was told my solution to having my code work on only its second run belonged here

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The task was to convert a string to a list without using built-in functions. That's the code from a classmate

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Expand and contract

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I thought it only existed in stories... but it has happend to me 😢😲😱

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Found inside my compiler I've been writing for about 2 years

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This says *plenty*

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[Production code] The previous dev thought it was ok to use floating point variables for money

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my code from two years ago checking if the user chose a valid option

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May I present to you: Superbasic++ - A programming language in german

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I may have made a slight miscalculation

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GitHub CS is fun

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i think i might have an error in line 27

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Found this gem today

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Pointers

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I'm supposed to Peer Review this...

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Found in my college textbook. This is neither valid JavaScript nor valid Java.

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The irony

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One of my genius coworkers felt it was necessary to disallow any and all multi level imports, despite many a 3rd party library using it for exporting some utilities. Now our codebase is riddled with these `eslint-disable-next-line` comments

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The fact that the complier let this run, and it worked.....

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Found this in my teacher's slides

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I don't even know what to say here....

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Scary.

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Pixel-Based Device Detection

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Found this gem in router settings page

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Webstorm considers UUIDs to be Swedish

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Scripting languages must unite to calculate isEven

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Code like this is why PHP & WordPress get the hate they do. Found this on a website I just inherited. Fully executable in a public directory.

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For the Love of Ternary

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If only there were a better way to accomplish this...

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Found in the Windows XP source code leak

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This should be really enough to fire someone...

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This snippet we found was so delightfully perfect that we had to frame it in the office.

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I can't understand why anybody would do this.

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Let's look into the code...oh...

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uno dos tres cuatro cinco seis siete ocho nueve diez once doce trece

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This at the top of production stored procedures...!

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I like the filename the most :)

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In a project by two 'senior' devs. Descriptive names here would be the least of my concerns...

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Yo dawg I heard you like switch statements...

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how the fuck

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So uh. That unmaintainable code i wrote at 3 am that i was never going to come back to now needs to be modified.....

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DP is the way to go.........to hell

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specifically for them slackers 🤣

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First Pull Request

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My friend codes like this.

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One of the top image results for “programming”

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I created a monster

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Wrote this project a year ago. Have an error originating from this. Completely at lost at what I was looking at, o_o.

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dunno what to say

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Academia is a goldmine

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This is a Gira Homeserver that automatically sends KNX-Commands to turn off all the lights in a building at certain times.....

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yo what the .. ??

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OpenCV with Python textbook. Took me an hour to run line-by-line and find the reason on crushing.

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Which side are you on?

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just a casual xml file with 353922 lines

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log

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At least the site has plenty of style

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Found in production...

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I saw this and fixed 👌

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Dangerous times we live in...

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status418

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How to Dockerfile like a pro

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Pro tip when you forgot how to declare an array in C

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oh no

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The task was to just sort the list

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When you can't be bothered using regex ( it doesn't even work btw)

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How to throw an error like a pro

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The API I am dealing with has found THE BEST WAY to represent the country field. ONLY 192 VALUES necessary!

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I’m fine

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A classic “it works but i hate it” from our new junior

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On this subreddit I always enjoyed reading bad code and programming related stories, but today it happened to me : I had to write this spaghet because I had literally no other solution

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Checking in on Monday morning to find this

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I discovered this today in the backend of our production React/Phoenix app

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Well that's a fancy way to get the first element in a list

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I got handed over this code from a guy leaving the company today

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I didn't think about it until i started, then realized a ternary operator is the worst option for what i was doing because it would require this.

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Code of my first published game before I knew about matrices

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Asked Github Copilot to duplicate all items in an array ten times. Result was interesting

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The code retrieves over 100000 string from the database and renders 100000 option element on the UI. It takes 1 minute to be rendered.

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My AP Computer Science Teacher is Incredible

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try catch statements for when the recursion(maze) goes out of bounds...

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When I trained a yolov4 model to detect heads...

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There is a lot of older code in our codebase that is a goldmine

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We are unable to offer positions to anyone named Jeffrey

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He's a bit unoptimized but he's got the spirit

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i gave up on c# but after a few months i tryed to make a program to calculate an avarge over a month where i manully put in the values i dont think it turnt out good it works though

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Me after ctrl-c ctrl-v from stack overflow and slightly changing it.

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Found this in an old script of mine. I don't know why or how I did this, but I made this.

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This was today's Javascript lesson in my programming class.

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Let me take a sec to try work out if this is right or not...

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The worst part is that this got 4 votes for Best Practices...

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I love Scratch, you can put code wherever you want.

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Is there a better way to do this for my AI image generator lol

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If only there was a simpler way...

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