Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 30 minutes later[^][v]#661,320
can you explain what this means
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 13 minutes later, 43 minutes after the original post[^][v]#661,321
@previous (B)
it means the person who wrote it is an idiot
1. the line of code didn't actually do anything because it just produces a result with no side-effects, and the result was not remembered
2. the rest of the code assumed that the result was stored, but it wasn't
3. the code itself was entirely pointless because what it was trying to accomplish was already done elsewhere, so point 1 and 2 were not noticed because the entire line of code is pointless
4. it demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding about the programming language which is really quite shameful
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 6 minutes later, 50 minutes after the original post[^][v]#661,322
If only we could code humans, right? ;)
Anonymous B replied with this 10 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#661,324
@661,321 (A)
ok but I mean, commenting on it is just pointing out what they did wrong?
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#661,325
@previous (B)
yes and telling them to fix it, because they are in charge of that piece of code. i could just go in and fix it myself, but that is slightly rude and i prefer to educate
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 56 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#661,326
> 1. the line of code didn't actually do anything because it just produces a result with no side-effects, and the result was not remembered > 2. the rest of the code assumed that the result was stored, but it wasn't > 3. the code itself was entirely pointless because what it was trying to accomplish was already done elsewhere, so point 1 and 2 were not noticed because the entire line of code is pointless > 4. it demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding about the programming language which is really quite shameful
These people need to be publicly shamed or eliminated.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 18 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#661,327
"I nerd harder than this other nerd."
At the end of the day, it is irrelevant, because you are all nerds.
Anonymous D replied with this 10 years ago, 14 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#661,331