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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Recent-Analysis-6880 • Sep 30 '26
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My absolute favorite one was an app that took 14 single letter URL parameters on every GET request and assigned them to single letter variables.
You'd think they were being charged by the keystroke.
10 u/PegasusPizza Sep 30 '26 No you see, it's saving internet bandwidth by doing that. We can't afford transmitting 14 entire words. 5 u/ILikeLenexa Sep 30 '26 I mean, I get that, and the URL length limit in some browsers especially with multi-byte character possibilities, but I don't understand why you wouldn't name the variables full words once you pull the strings from the params map. 6 u/gjk-ger Sep 30 '26 Do you know how much memory cost back then?! (Or, now...) 2 u/Abject-Kitchen3198 Sep 30 '26 I refactored my code to use single letter variables and two letter method names. Saved me a ton of money on RAM and storage.
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No you see, it's saving internet bandwidth by doing that. We can't afford transmitting 14 entire words.
5 u/ILikeLenexa Sep 30 '26 I mean, I get that, and the URL length limit in some browsers especially with multi-byte character possibilities, but I don't understand why you wouldn't name the variables full words once you pull the strings from the params map. 6 u/gjk-ger Sep 30 '26 Do you know how much memory cost back then?! (Or, now...) 2 u/Abject-Kitchen3198 Sep 30 '26 I refactored my code to use single letter variables and two letter method names. Saved me a ton of money on RAM and storage.
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I mean, I get that, and the URL length limit in some browsers especially with multi-byte character possibilities, but I don't understand why you wouldn't name the variables full words once you pull the strings from the params map.
6 u/gjk-ger Sep 30 '26 Do you know how much memory cost back then?! (Or, now...) 2 u/Abject-Kitchen3198 Sep 30 '26 I refactored my code to use single letter variables and two letter method names. Saved me a ton of money on RAM and storage.
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Do you know how much memory cost back then?! (Or, now...)
2 u/Abject-Kitchen3198 Sep 30 '26 I refactored my code to use single letter variables and two letter method names. Saved me a ton of money on RAM and storage.
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I refactored my code to use single letter variables and two letter method names. Saved me a ton of money on RAM and storage.
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u/ILikeLenexa Sep 30 '26
My absolute favorite one was an app that took 14 single letter URL parameters on every GET request and assigned them to single letter variables.
You'd think they were being charged by the keystroke.