/r/programminghorror
Share strange or straight-up awful code.
RULES:
All posts MUST show terrible code. There are no exceptions.
No Editor Themes - If it's just your editor that looks bad, it doesn't belong here.
No Advertisement Code. This is generally written by people in marketing who only know what "code" looks like from other ads. It's not real code, so it doesn't belong.
No Student Code. Yes, they're learning, but bad code is part of the process.
No Generated Code. If it's minified JS, generated XML, or what have you, we don't want it here. Yes, the YouTube homepage has an extra right-angle bracket. We know.
No Asking for Help. Go to r/learnprogramming. What are you doing here?
No Spamming/Advertising. We don't care about your shitty Youtube video or new crypto that will "change the world".
Be Nice. No hate speech of any kind is allowed, as well as generally being a jerk. Talk about the code, not eachother.
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Please direct stories without code to /r/talesfromtechsupport, and programming questions to /r/learnprogramming
Programming Horror is where developers come together to revel in the idiocy of our peers.
This subreddit is meant for sharing funny programming related stories and strange or straight-up awful code.
For the sake of not being mauled by rabid lawyer bears, please make sure to anonymize your stories - changing the names of people and companies.
For code examples, indent all your lines with 4 spaces to make it more readable:
foo = 'bar'
Sister subreddits
- talesfromtechsupport - Not everything that involves a computer is a programming horror story. For IT support related submissions, head on over here.
- talesfromdesigners - For our more artistically inclined brothers and sisters.
- badcode - When you don't have a story to go along with the horrible, horrible code.
- shittyprogramming - ninjas that only write in the <b>BEST</b> code
- usemysoftware - A subreddit for software developers to come post their software and for users to test it.
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I unironically did this today and feel ashamed...
21:29 UTC
how would I create a motion detection dance game with only a camera as input
14:57 UTC
Version? No we don't do that here
I'm refactoring this system and this isn't the worst it has 5 tables for users, the worst part is that they don't have a difference
14:23 UTC
infrastructureManagementCanHoldYouBack
12:08 UTC
Trigonometry functions in CSS
20:27 UTC
Had to make sure I don't check values outside of the 2d array...
18:11 UTC
From Math to Basic, to C, to Assembly, to Machine Code
09:40 UTC
Function to read an account from a database.
20:49 UTC
Bad isEven functions: a thread
I'm sure everyone has seen joke code at some point in their career of an exhaustive if/else block checking if an int equals every possible even value for an isEven() function. Now, obviously, in C/C++ the best way to determine if a value is even doesn't even involve calling a function: just !(val&1). However, I thought it would be fun if we try to take on an algorithmic approach to writing bad isEven functions in a thread. Here are 3 to start:
This takes an int in flips a bool every time it decrements. When the int is 0, the bool will be returned:
bool isEven(int val) {
bool isEven = true;
while (val != 0) {
isEven = !isEven;
val--;
}
return isEven;
}Here's another fun one one. This relies on the integer overflow and continuously increments the value by two until it equals either 0 or 1:
bool isEven(int val) {
while(1) {
if (val == 0) return true;
if (val == 1) return false;
val += 2;
}
}Recursion is always fun. This returns true if the value is equal to 0, or returns the inverse of the value minus one if its not:
bool isEven(int val) {
return val == 0 ? true : !isEven(val - 1);
}So how about it? What are your guy's bad isEven()?
18:36 UTC
Generalized prime factor FFT... it just works
15:06 UTC
I'm not proud of this. I WAS YOUNG AND IMMATURE
I just found this screenshot in my google drive. I remember PROUDLY sending this to all my friends via a GOOGLE DOC thinking I was comedy legend
I was like 12 or smth don't judge
22:01 UTC
My professor displaying his usual coding practices
19:58 UTC
I’ve been told I deserve to be in hell for my code
17:56 UTC
we all love sleeping to deal with entropy
15:50 UTC
theHorror
22:07 UTC
"so uh i don't like javascript"
14:51 UTC
Slate JS but in one file
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Not sure if it's horror-y enough, but still
17:52 UTC
//filter
21:44 UTC
When you suffer from "missing bracket"-PTSD
15:32 UTC
Do you split your components
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