Signs You're a Crappy Programmer (and don't know it)

Jul 26, 2006

Very funny post, perfect way to start a hump day, thanks Damien.

A few of my personal favourites:

Your code wipes out important data.
You wrote some code that's supposed to overwrite application files with new files, but it goes haywire and deletes a bunch of the user's important data files.

You take great pride in the high volume of code you write.
Being productive is good, unfortunately producing lots of lines of code isn't quite the same as being productive. Users never remark "Wow, this software may be buggy and hard to use, but at least there is a lot of code underneath." Far from being productive, spewing out tons of crap code slows down other devs and creates a huge maintenance burden for the future. (I had an english teacher in high school who called this verbal diarrhea).

Reminded me of another post I ran across quite a while ago, 'Your code sucks if ...'

2 Comments:

  1. Alex Brola
     Dec 10, 2007 at 2:27 PM

    Lmao.

    "Your users are stupid. Really stupid."

    I'm pretty sure that's usually the truth though =p

  2. JimmyS
     Dec 10, 2007 at 2:50 PM

    LOL - I think you missed one....

    1.) When running a project - your force of personality is so great that you'll batter any dissenting view, deny all responsibility for mistakes and blame other people/teams for issues..

    Oh yes - living it EVERY day!

    Jimmy


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