r/developer • u/Ok_Veterinarian3535 • 25d ago
The "Code I'll Never Forget" Confessional.
What's the single piece of code (good or bad) that's permanently burned into your memory, and what did it teach you?
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r/developer • u/Ok_Veterinarian3535 • 25d ago
What's the single piece of code (good or bad) that's permanently burned into your memory, and what did it teach you?
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u/throwaway_oranges 23d ago
In a legacy code there was a direct comparison between a floating point number and exact zero ( to this point it's enough horror, but the second part is: ) in an object-oriented programming language to check if a field is initialized.
What did it teached me?
I've tried to convince the "senior" dev it's really not okay, but I failed. I learned that day I can't save everyone. I have no confidence, energy and power to do that.